Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Paths of Glory’: Young Director Stanley Kubrick’s Scathing Indictment of War

Kirk Douglas plays the heroic Col. Dax in “Paths of Glory.” United Artists

Not Rated| 1h 28min | Drama, War | 1957

“Full Metal Jacket” (1987) is a modern-day war classic by all accounts. It covers the Vietnam War: Everything from the stressful weeks that men spent in boot camp, all the way to the brutal carnage during the soldiers’ climactic street and jungle battles. But it wasn’t director Stanley Kubrick’s only war-movie masterpiece. There is also one of his earliest works, 1957’s “Paths of Glory.”