8 Movies That Had No Regard For The Environment

Stanley Kubrick's World War I film Paths of Glory was his first big commercial success and set him on the path to becoming one of the best-known directors on the planet. It was a memorable film with a powerful anti-war theme percolating through from start to finish, but its production also involved a bit of senseless violence on a perfectly peaceful landscape.

The movie was shot in Bavaria, Germany, where Kubrick paid a local farmer to film on some of his land and basically destroy it. Old buildings that had been standing for years were sent tumbling to the ground, trees were cut down, bushes and plants were razed away, and huge holes were dug into the earth to look like explosion craters.

Then, the whole landscape was rigged up with explosives and fireworks and blown up for one of the film's action scenes. In short, a lovely little patch of land looked very literally like a bomb site by the time Kubrick and co had rolled out of town.