 | Most Honorable Sonby William Kubota Most Honorable Son tells the story of U.S. Army aerial gunner Ben Kuroki, a Japanese American who volunteered to fight against Japan to prove his loyalty to America. |
 | Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experienceby Richard Robbins Operation Homecoming presents firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. |
 | Red White Black & Blueby Tom Putnam In a secret battle that cost thousands of lives but was never revealed to the American public, the Japanese army invaded Alaska in June 1942. Sixty years later, two veterans embark on an intense and emotional journey, returning to their former battlefield. Independent Lens |
 | Refugeeby Spencer Nakasako Three young Cambodian American men return to the land of their roots wielding video cameras to document their experience of meeting fathers, sisters, and brothers for the first time. Independent Lens, Global Voices |
 | Reserved to Fightby Chantelle Squires, Manju Varghese, Coby Cox, and Sterling Van Wagenen In the first three years since returning home from active duty, four U.S. Marines fight the internal battle of reintegration. |
 | Tattooed Under Fireby Nancy Schiesari A look at River City Tattoo Parlor in Killeen, Texas — home to Fort Hood, America’s largest military base — where war-bound and returning soldiers go under the needle and confess their deepest secrets and fears. |
 | This Is Where We Take Our Standby Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros, and David Zeiger In 2008, at an unprecedented conference of veterans and active-duty soldiers called Winter Soldier, four days of heartbreaking testimony revealed why many veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had concluded that their mission was unjust. |
 | The Way We Get Byby Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine. POV |
 | Where Soldiers Come Fromby Heather Courtney Feeling trapped in their rural hometown, five friends join the National Guard and begin their four-year journey from teenagers to soldiers in Afghanistan to veterans. POV |
 | Wings of Defeatby Risa Morimoto and Linda Hoaglund They were Japan’s Divine Wind Special Attack Unit, or Kamikaze tokkōtai, and 4,000 of them — some still in their teens — died in a futile effort to turn the tide of a war already lost. Little known outside of Japan, a few Kamikaze survived. Now old men, they must reconcile their guilt with their gratitude for the unexpected gift of a full life. Independent Lens |
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