The human cost, not the spectacle. Short films about what war does to the people inside it.
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War on screen tempts filmmakers toward spectacle, and the short form quietly refuses it. With no budget for a battlefield and no time for a campaign, the war short narrows to a face, an encounter, a single impossible moment. That's where the genre is most honest anyway. These are small films about the largest thing, and the scale of what they leave out is exactly what gives them weight.
Deserteurs stages an encounter that forces two enemies to stay human in inhumane times. Hawker recovers the true story of WW1 fighter pilots at the dawn of aerial combat, and Hymn of Hate puts Russell Tovey and Thomas Turgoose at the centre of a WW1 short. Three films, three ways into the same vast subject, each one chosen by our editors and free to watch right now.
