Voices in Wartime

Potent.

A thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.

A moving documentary about poetry inspired by combat.

Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare.

Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry, and not just Homer's "Iliad."

Its pedagogical tone perfectly suits it for viewing in classrooms.

Poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.