War Trauma Movies

Tracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp...

"Andha Yug"—literally 'Age of Blindness'—is an allegorical play written in the aftermath of the Partition of India by Shri Dharamvir...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...

WWI pilots Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis, traumatized by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet the eccentric and...

Two years after the attack of 7 October 2023, Israeli survivors and bereaved families confront psychosocial trauma and attempt recovery on a daily...

A withdrawn war veteran seen as peculiar by the local villagers lives and brings up his child, the only thing that gives his life meaning.

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...

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

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...

Ciro, a botanist suffering from PTSD during wartime, finds solace in flowers and plants as a way to cope with the constant suffering caused by the...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the country folds, and then collapsed in facing the...

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...

When Maria witnesses an accidental family tragedy, she's told it never happened and must decide what to do with the truth.

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...

After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is...