The Best Years of Our Lives

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

War comes home in director William Wyler’s drama about three servicemen returning from the blood-soaked battlefronts of World War II to hometowns they no longer recognize. The project started as an article in Time magazine about the difficulties encountered by troops coming home, turned into a screenplay by MacKinlay Cantor, commissioned by producer and studio head Samuel Goldwyn.