War Trauma Movies

Jay Reddy, a college freshman, struggles to live with his newfound sobriety. A chance run-in with an old friend and a conflict with two pranksters...

During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's...

Claude Lelouch was a Jewish child in occupied France. In this documentary, he talks about the trauma he still feels from that experience, but also...

In a cemetery on the ocean shore, teenager Aïda follows her desire to bring to life her long dead father.

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German...

A Jewish town is burning. The figures of the dying inhabitants are inscribed in organic sculptures. A male choir sings the 'S’brent, unzer...

A withdrawn war veteran seen as peculiar by the local villagers lives and brings up his child, the only thing that gives his life meaning.

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her...

A man searches for his paranoid brother, hiding in the depths of an underground factory.

Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home,...

The story follows a shell-shocked veteran suffering from amnesia with no memory of who he was before the war, and Julienne Coppens, a woman who...

A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his...

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih...

One day, in Savigny, an 18-year-old boy left his house in the middle of the war, saying: "I'm leaving, I'm going to kill Hitler." His name was...

In a world torn apart, silence speaks louder than words. A fleeting moment of birth challenges the noise of war.

In autumn 1944, during the Liberation of Brittany, writer Louis Guilloux worked as an interpreter for the American army. He was a privileged witness...

Streamed exclusively on her Instagram stories, film maker Janne Elens takes us on a short and intimate journey to her family's abandoned house to...

Explores how Hitler’s personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.

Memories of the death of Richard, his childhood sweetheart, still haunt the war veteran Leonard to this day. Over the years, Leonard turns to alcohol...