The GreenBox: At The Heart of War
2025 • 56m • Documentary
Availability
Available until Dec 31, 2026
Available Worldwide
Language
English
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About the film
The story:
A destiny-altering air battle over the Austrian Alps; capture and imprisonment in an infamous POW camp; a desperate, deadly march across a frozen Europe - all elements of an iconic war story. But the burden of history is carried by more than just the people on the front lines, and it endures long after the guns stop firing. Combat veterans often bear scars, psychological and physical. Sometimes their family members endure pain, passing along generational trauma to their offspring. This intimate film explores one family’s journey through passion, bravery and loss during WWII and the decades that followed - a story that resonates with combat veterans and their families, while enlightening those who've never directly faced the trauma of war.
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Crew
Holly Stadtler, Victoria Hughes, Joel Stein, +3 more
Awards & recognition
Flathead Lake International Cinemafest
Documentary Feature Screening
What people are saying
‘“The Green Box: At the Heart of War” is a documentary about a son’s search for the father he barely knew, a B-24 co-pilot whose own mementos were stored in an Army Air Force green box in the attic of the house the son grew up in. It’s a fascinating family detective story that turns up eyewitnesses to the air battle in which Lt. Robert “Bob” Kurtz’s plane was shot down over Ehrwald, Austria in 1944, descendents of the B-24 crew who knew Kurtz and his impact on their lives, a Tuskegee Airman who flew a P-51 charged with protecting their bombing mission, and a tour guide of Stalag Luft III, “The Great Escape” POW camp. And it’s a love story, recounted in letters and photos. Martin Sheen narrates Jim Kurtz’s quest to learn about his dad. It’s great family history of the sort that tens of thousands of families experienced over 80 years ago, movingly remembered or recreated for this film, another reminder of the history that’s passing away around us as we forget its hard-won lessons.‘
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