Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory (1957) is an anti-war black and white film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. The book had no title when it was finished, so the publisher held a contest. The winning entry came from the ninth stanza of the famous Thomas Gray poem Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard (line 33-36).

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Tonight on Arte (French link)