Home of the Brave is a 2004 film directed by Paola di Florio. It is a documentary about Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist who was murdered in 1965 in Selma, Alabama, USA, as she campaigned for black suffrage.
It was nominated for the IDA Award by the International Documentary Association in 2004, the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and the Documentary Screenplay Award by the Writers Guild of America in 2005.
The film is narrated by Stockard Channing. It is one of the films featured at the first annual Traverse City Film Festival in 2005.
Home of the Brave is a 2006 drama film following the lives of four American soldiers in Iraq and their return to the United States. The movie was shot in Morocco and in Spokane, Washington. It is notable as a modern day version of the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.
The film has received an MPAA rating of R for war violence and language.
The film was a massive flop at the box office, earning a paltry $51,708 domestically. Originally released on December 15th, 2006 for Oscar consideration, the production studio re-thought the release pattern and decided to pull it from theaters, planning on showing it to a wider audience later in the year. It was re-released on May 11th, 2007 in 44 theaters, but this did nothing to help the film's financial earnings.
It was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song ("Try Not To Remember,") which was performed by Sheryl Crow.
Home of the Brave is a 1949 film based on a play by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, James Edwards, and Steve Brodie.
The National Board of Review named the film the eighth best of 1949.
ngo: Yeah, I'll never forget the first letter I got from my wife. It started, "My darling, darling, darling, I'll never again use the word 'love' without thinking only of you." And I remember the last one I got from her. It started, "Dear T.J., this is the hardest letter I've ever had to write."
ngo: Divided we fall, united we stand, coward take my coward's hand.
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They're angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home? Written by