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Paths of Glory

WarDrama

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916. From TMDB

255 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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Paths of Glory is a 1957 war drama film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou.

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  • Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2025

    There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing. That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean. Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    STANLEY KUBRICK: I invented the Army shooting a guy who couldn't even stand up as a cautionary tale about capital punishment. PETE HEGSETH: At long last we have decided to shoot a guy who can't even stand up from the classic war film PATHS OF GLORY bsky.app/profile/secr...

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  • Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Best war film ever made about to kick off on TPTV. I will not be accepting alternatives. Except 49th Parallel. Oh and Paths of Glory. But this might be the best one. As you were.

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  • Flying Squid @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 26, 2023

    There's a Stanley Kubrick movie about this that takes place in WWI called Paths of Glory. It's really haunting. Russia's morality is back in the 1910s.

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  • Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    French is an appropriate language to turn to, since Kubrick made a film titled PATHS OF GLORY, which was about French soldiers in WWI. Of course, Kubrick also directed THE SHINING. 5/5 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ch...

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  • Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Desperate Living The Story of Temple Drake Honky Tonk Freeway Go Bubba Ho-Tep Night Moves Weirdly, Superman An aggressively curated selection of WKRP eps Son of The Mask Paths of Glory Segment 2 of the Twilight Zone movie Eraserhead Streets of Fire Crossing Delancey Speed 2: Cruise Control

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  • Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2026

    Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas on the set of the war drama film Paths of Glory (1957).

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of PATHS OF GLORY boxd.it/bAPPOb If Kubrick's anti-war missive doesn't piss you off, you aren't really watching it! Sadly identifiable & relevant, playing politics with human life isn't a bug in the military industrial complex, it's a feature. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 538

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    For Kubrick week at The Reveal, I wrote about perhaps my favorite film of his, PATHS OF GLORY, and how it fits into his career-long war against the elites. Free for non-subscribers. thereveal.film/death-and-di...

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  • Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2024

    French is an appropriate language to turn to, since Kubrick made a film titled PATHS OF GLORY which was about French soldiers in WWI. Of course, Kubrick also directed THE SHINING. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ch... 5/5

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  • Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2023

    10 Films to Get to Know me -Paths of Glory -Il conformista -Shin Godzilla -Charade -Have You Seen My Movie? -Bonnie and Clyde -La antena -Daisies -Duck Soup -The French Dispatch

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  • wyspianski05.bsky.social @wyspianski05.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2026

    #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #letterboxdfriday #filmsky Watched Paths of Glory (just wow) and Vera Drake this evening. I'll be lucky to do a double bill of that quality again... Personally thought Peeping Tom was objectively good but the body of the film didn't quite match the very strong opening

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  • SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    I saw “Paths of Glory” on German television when I was nine or ten years old. An incredible experience. This movie made me think about war, politics and not least about movies and art. My first film book, which I bought when I was 14, was about Stanley Kubrick...

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    #NowWatching PATHS OF GLORY (1957). Director: Stanley Kubrick. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker. Kubrick's anti-war classic is, perhaps, more relevant than ever. What if power-hungry, inhuman, delusional hypocrites were in charge of War Department? Oh, wait.... #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 538

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  • TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    Kirk Douglas was so impressed with this film, he sought out Kubrick to direct PATHS OF GLORY (1957) #TCMParty #TheKilling ^JW

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  • 🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    All Quiet on the Western Front is absolutely still a masterpiece. I hate the assertion that Paths of Glory was somehow the first film to show you what WWI warfare was really like... Even The Big Parade helped to do that before All Quiet... 😑 #CarlLaemmle #TCMParty

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  • Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    alway so much talk about Kubrick but never PATHS OF GLORY. Indisputably his greatest movie.

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  • Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    Got my Kubrick set and looks like none of the discs were scratched as has been reported by others. Put on Paths of Glory since I haven’t seen it in a decade and I want to sit down so many filmmakers rn and show them this to see that you don’t have to do a talky movie as just medium close ups

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  • niktemadur @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 16, 2023

    Do you have a favorite film scene that you come back to again and again?. For me, it has to be [this, the final scene from Stanley Kubrick's "Paths Of Glory".](https://youtu.be/pJH8hO7VlWE)

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  • Fade Out @fadeoutpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Saw my favorite Kubrick movie, PATHS OF GLORY, on the big screen today. What a marvelous experience.

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  • Hubbub🕊️ 🇪🇺 @hubbubbub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2024

    Paths of Glory ~ film [1957] Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. (Source: Criterion Collection) faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-paths-of...

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  • Richard @sablue52.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    Paths of Glory is a great movie.

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  • Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.comBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    If I'm not mistaken, the movie on the drive-in screen in this clip from the 1958 movie Lonelyhearts is Stanley Kubrick's 1957 classic, Paths of Glory. Incidents of this sort of film-in-film shot using a real movie were fairly uncommon (but not unknown, of course) in Hollywood as far as I know.

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  • Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    BTD - Timothy Carey, here in Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY - An interview with the actor by Grover Lewis in Film Comment https://t.co/Nl6CymbgPv

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  • Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Watched a lot of good ass movies this week. Also my first time watching Paths of Glory, wild that it's taken me this long to get to. Turns out that Kubrick can really direct a film

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  • Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    I've long thought that Ridley Scott's first Gladiator film seemed to replicate shots from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and other movies. So I made split screens to compare them. First, Gladiator and Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. youtu.be/JH64LKyZ_Dw

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  • South West Silents @swsilents.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    Just under a month until our #WW1 Special Double Bill with #SilentFilm The Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne + Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957) both on #Bristol’s Megascreen. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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  • teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    Hot take: #PathsOfGlory is a better movie than Full Metal Jacket. I love Kubrick. But Full Metal Jacket loses me when it gets out of basic training. Paths of Glory is riveting from start to finish and asks really tough questions about war and brings home the horrors of combat. #TCMParty

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  • Tim Salmons @timsalmons.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    Bits #4K Review – @sbjork.bsky.social continues with his epic long term coverage of THE COMPLETE KUBRICK #UltraHD boxed set with the 1957 anti-war film PATHS OF GLORY from @criterion.bsky.social. @billhuntbits.bsky.social @thedigitalbits.bsky.social thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...

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  • James Bramble @bramblejim.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    #Bales2026MovieChallenge -a war movie for those that don’t like war movies #OctoberMovieChallenge -political hearing Paths of Glory (1957) No gore and not graphic, but a deeply human story about the absurdity of war. Grossly unfair court martial hearings. @omacolt.bsky.social

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  • Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    Tonight on TCM #TCM PATHS OF GLORY (1957) A great anti-war film, co-written by Jim Thompson and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Essential viewing.🎥

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  • Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Time is a funny thing. Tom Cruise is still a major movie star; he starred in a film by Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut); Kubrick made a movie that co-starred Adolphe Menjou (Paths of Glory), who starred in a film directed by D.W Griffith (The Sorrows of Satan). Griffith.... well you know who he is.

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  • oceans_of_mona 🏳️‍⚧️ @vanillablue.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    This year, I've seen 24 2025 releases, but overall I've gone to see a movie in the theater 53 times. Some new movies many times (SINNERS, Mickey 17, Superman, etc), some '24 releases (Nosferatu, A Real Pain, etc), many old movies (Thief, Paths of Glory, etc). 53 trips to DAH MOOVEESSH in 48 weeks.

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  • Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a gif or still. 10. Paths of Glory (1957). Stanley Kubrick.

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  • Eric Janssen @ericjanssen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory (1957) The Kubrick war film you DON’T see memed that often.

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  • Ryan ⚾️🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    #letterboxdfour #lastfourwatched Four first-time watches, all except Colorado Territory in the theater. Paths of Glory is immune to hyperbolic praise! What a masterwork.

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  • Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2023

    Yesterday's thread on PATHS OF GLORY....up soon, the most terrifying, prescient film of 1957, installment 117.... A FACE IN THE CROWD! #filmsky #horrorsky 🗃️

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  • teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Paths of Glory is a better Kubrick war film than Full Metal Jacket. Fight me! #TCMParty

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  • Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    Name your fav black and white film. I could go with The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Paths of Glory, Judgement At Nuremberg, or The Hustler, but I always return to my dark comedy master.

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  • Steve Anderson @steveawriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Great discussion by the @warmovietheatre.bsky.social crew about one of my favorite genre mixes — war and noir. Attack! is hard-boiled combat drama with a fantastic cast, unsung and ahead of its time. Nice counterpart to another fave, Kubrick's Paths of Glory. Get the podcast, see the movie. #noir

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  • Paul @winch72.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    #AugustMovieChallenge #Filmsky 22. Execution in a movie. Paths of Glory (1957)

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  • Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.comBluesky · Jul 9, 2024

    Have you seen "Paths of Glory?" Probably the best anti-war movie ever made. Kubrick had a very definite point of view when it came to war and the military.

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  • Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2024

    Please clap: I flipped over to Turner a few minutes into Paths of Glory and managed to switch away after two or three scenes because I really need some sleep tonight. (Greatest anti-war movie ever? Greatest movie ever? 3rd-greatest Kubrick anti-war movie? Somewhere in there!)

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  • ˢᵗᵒⁿᵉᵈ//STAR WARS @stonedstarwars.comBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Paths Of Glory was Stanley Kubrick's fifth film. Five of just thirteen. It's been done in several episodes of The Clone Wars. It's about the absurdity of war as encapsulated by the delusional attitude of the leaders & how the people at the bottom always get screwed. It's so very relevant today.

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  • Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    Listen, I love Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory, but Dr Strangelove is his best film. I don’t care what anyone says.

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  • Ciarán @scoured.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    watched Paths of Glory after work and goddamn that is a movie that made me really angry (this is a compliment)

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  • Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    You can always tell when someone hasn’t actually seen Paths of Glory, Kubrick’s most perfect movie

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  • Marc Sobel @marcsobel.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    I bought this book and found it was like reading a book you'd already read before. That it, so profoundly correct that it seems like a cliche. It was like watching the portrayal of generals in every movie that's a variation on Paths of Glory.

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  • Smiling Chauffeur 🇨🇦⚛️ @smilingchauffeur.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Not sure if this movie applies. "Paths of Glory" 1957 Kirk Douglas Director Stanley Kubrick.

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  • 🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Just watched the Paths of Glory disc I got off criterion a few months ago. Movie still kicks ass, and now I own it so I can loan it to you.

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  • Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Just watched Paths of Glory (which is obviously brilliant), and now I’ve seen every Stanley Kubrick movie. Fear and Desire aside, pretty good stuff.

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  • Cinemava @cinemava.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    PATHS OF GLORY ( 1957 ) THE anti-war film has a searing scathing message that still packs a wallop 68 years later. #TCMParty 1 / 3

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  • South West Silents @swsilents.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    In November we have our WW1 double bill with #SilentFilm Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne; thanks to the Imperial War Muesum. + Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957). All on the massive screen in @bristolaquarium.bsky.social: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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  • Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2024

    Paths of Glory is a great movie. Maybe my favorite Kubrick. The first half is a battle, the second half is about the political aftermath within the military. It’s explicitly political and not at all the normal politics of a war film.

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  • Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2024

    Now watching: ‘Paths of Glory’, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1957. 🎬🎥

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  • Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2023

    forgot to do my favorite first watches of August: Targets Paths of Glory Your Name Heaven Can Wait And you can follow me on Letterboxd! boxd.it/qgcF

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  • Alex Navarro @alexnavarro.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2023

    what if I told you Paths of Glory, the similarly plotted WWI film also starring Kirk Douglas, was the movie where he met Eric’s mother. what would that information do for you.

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  • Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2023

    Paths of Glory ruins you with one of the best anti-war movies ever made and then - bang - hits you with the sitcom credits. Savage film

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  • Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    PATHS OF GLORY - good movie, it turns out

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  • shaver @letterbotoxd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Ben's favorite Kubrick film is Paths of Glory. I think your favorite Kubrick movie says a lot about you. I'm not sure what though. My favorite one is Full Metal Jacket #tcmparty

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