The Big Parade
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The war epic that is thought to have inspired all-time-great films such as All Quiet on the Western Front, The Big Parade was praised in its time for realistically depicting war and its consequences. It is still thought of as one of the greatest films about World War I, and was a massive box office hit. Version graciously restored and sourced from: VItaphoneDiscs@Gmail.com , https://archive.org/details/the-big-parade-1925-synchronized-sound-restored-from-original-vitaphone-type-soundtrack-discs
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The Big Parade (1925) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- King Vidor
- Starring
- John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Robert Ober, Tom O'Brien, Karl Dane
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