Westfront 1918 is German director G.W. Pabst's 1930 film about World War I in Germany based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen. The film bears many resemblances to the American film All Quiet on the Western Front, but is far more bleak.

It was pioneering in the use of sound, in that it manages to record live sound during complex tracking shots through the trenches.

Some shots from the film were used for scene-setting purposes in a 1937 BBC Television adaptation of the play Journey's End.

A critical success when it was released, though shown truncated from important scenes, the film quickly became, in Germany especially, considered by the authorities as unsuitable for the people, notably for its obvious pacificism, its clear denunciation of the total and unuseful abomination of war, an attitude Goebels would soon label as "cowardly defeatism". The same fate would ultimately be met by the movie and many others like it out of Germany after 1933, when each day more, to quote French sources, war would be perceived by the political leaders as " an unsuitable subject matter for the screen ".

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks. Written by Jim Beaver