Review – Wartorn 1861-2010

This excellent, all-too-brief documentary focuses on PTSD among American veterans from the Civil War to current conflicts. Doubtless due in part to the star power of executive producer James Gandolfini, the crew gets candid access to Army doctors, military commanders, PTSD victims and their families. The result is a poignant portrait of how attitudes have changed in the last century and a half and how the problem still destroys lives. My only gripe was that this could have been longer, making more room for the Korean War and for vets suffering from PTSD without having been directly exposed to combat. Worth seeing