Taken from Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas in 1957 and directed by Stanley Kubrick, this for me is one of the most evocative scenes illustrating the horrors of war, shot in black and white we see Kirk Douglas' grim face as a reverse tracking shot traces his path through a World War I trench at Ant Hill. There is no music, no dialogue, only gunfire. Stanley Kubrick made two war films; Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket, both films made 30 years apart. They were one of many genres that Kubrick covered in his lifetime. He is considered one of the greatest filmmaker of all time and rightly so.
