The United States entry into World War I (April 1917) was very contentious when Western Europe was in battle with itself. The role America played toward finalizing that war raised the public’s sense of patriotism and internationalism (witness the Americans in Paris during the 1920s). Artistic expressions of war often focus on the glory of the warrior or the brutality of the event. This course will investigate early Hollywood post-war attitudes through films that visualize a freshly remembered participation in war. We will screen in chronological order: Charlie Chaplin’s short Shoulder Arms (1918), The Heart of Humanity (1918), The Lost Battalion (1919), King Vidor’s The Big Parade (1925), Raoul Walsh’s What Price Glory (1926), William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and, from a German viewpoint, Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). (All films shown in full except for The Heart of Humanity.)