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."
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare.
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Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
The words more than hold their own against the pictures.
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Village VoiceJoshua Land
Village VoiceJoshua Land
Poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.
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L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The film's self-limiting pacifism precludes a closer look at the poetry of war, which is not synonymous with poetry against war.