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Let There Be Light

1946 · Documentary · 58 min · NR

John Huston's long-suppressed film on war trauma.

John Huston follows soldiers treated for psychological trauma at an Army hospital after World War II, a film the Army withheld from the public until 1980.

Directed by John Huston · Narrated by Walter Huston · Music by Dimitri Tiomkin · Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps

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Content note: Real psychiatric patients describing wartime trauma.

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This film was made by the U.S. government. Works made by federal employees as part of their jobs have no copyright in the United States, so anyone may show it.

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