The Best Years of Our Lives is not a war movie. It’s a veterans movie. The protagonists are three men who find themselves on the same plane returning home from their service in World War II to ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the classic 1946 film “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Director William Wyler’s post-World War II drama remains one of the most popular movies of all time.

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And the movie inspired by a real-life group of soldiers was one of his biggest successes of all. In 1946, he was best known for The Best Years of Our Lives, a film that was the biggest of its day ...

The Best Years of Our Lives was so powerful that General Omar Bradley – then leading Veterans Administration – had the movie shown at the administration’s headquarters. The film went on to ...

The study of trauma has come a long way since The Best Years of Our Lives was first released in 1946, but this movie is nonetheless a surprisingly sharp examination of the lingering trauma these ...