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Marine Sergeant Terry Pulaski, a once proud man, is now a broken shell of himself having returned from Iraq with both PTSD and a disabling injury. Terry struggles to be a good father and husband, but his challenges leave him feeling like a burden to his wife and daughter. With his dog Duke in tow, he decides to leave his family behind.

The story of the problems faced by three veterans who return home after World War II and try to pick up their lives where they left off.

A Korean war veteran and retired automaker finds himself defending his Hmong immigrant neighbors against a local gang, and sets out to reform their teenage son, who tried to steal his prized Gran Torino.

Small-town hypocrisy comes into focus in this acclaimed exposé of a mid-American town.

In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...

After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...

An American soldier returning from World War I is unable to re-adjust to civilian life.

A Korean War vet comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and promptly falls prey to his boss' wife, starting a trail of deception, suspicion, and murder.

Returning World War I soldier MacRae and fiancee Day readjusting to life in the heartland; he wants to postpone their marriage until he is financially secure, and the waiting causes some misunderstandings.

When Major Charles Rane returns home to Texas, he is given a true hero's welcome. He and his friend Johnny Vohden have endured eight years of physical and mental torture in a POW camp. Charlie's big homecoming includes a Cadillac convertible and a couple of thousand dollars ... and the news that his wife has fallen in love with another man.