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.

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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Run Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 22, 2020
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Warner Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright & Virginia Mayo | |
Performer: | Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Cathy O'Donnell, Gladys George, Roman Bohnen, Charles Halton & Ray Collins | |
Directed by | William Wyler | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenplay by | Robert E. Sherwood | |
Original story by | MacKinlay Kantor | |
Composition by | Hugo Friedhofer | |
Art Direction by | Perry Ferguson & George Jenkins | |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn | |
Director of Photography: | Gregg Toland |
Entertainment Reviews:
Profoundly and sensitively balances the private demons of scarred veterans and the press of public policies that leave their mark on daily life.
New Yorker
By all rights, the homecoming drama The Best Years of Our Lives should have been another well intentioned film left to the dated dustbins of history, but World War II vet William Wyler put more soul into this picture than anything else in his career.
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Stream on Demand
Rating: 4/5 --
[A] powerful, if cumbersome prestige picture.
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Time Out
The Best Years of Our Lives is full of visually poetic scenes that speak louder than words ever could.
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Boulder Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
In our own era of continuous armed conflicts, innocent deaths and PTSD, the public's naiveté about the "glories" of war has long since faded to black...
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JWR
Rating: 10/10 --
If you haven't seen 'The Best Years of Our Lives' don't wait as long as I did to give it a watch. You will be rewarded by a moving story of love, family, and the ability of the human spirit to turn the worst years into the best.
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rachelsreviews.net
William Wyler's heartbreaking postwar ballad seems even more radical today than it did in its Oscar-thick heyday. It's as non-propagandistic as an unemployment line.
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Village Voice
Description by OLDIES.com:
This Academy Award-winning drama recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives.
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- Sales Rank: 2,822
- UPC: 883929736072
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