What do the long-ago war experiences of one's parents have to do with one's own life? Oliver Kanehl takes the audience on a search for the places of his father's wartime childhood in present-day Poland. Past and present meet when today's normality encounters past horrors and hidden trauma is slowly revealed.
What do the long-ago war experiences of one's parents have to do with one's own life? Oliver Kanehl takes the audience on a search for the places of his father's wartime childhood in present-day Poland. Past and present meet when today's normality encounters past horrors and hidden trauma is slowly revealed.
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.