Drama · War
American
1957 · Directed by William Wyler · 137 min
Indiana, during the Civil War. A Quaker farm family lives by gentle rules, but their horse-loving father, devout mother and restless children each test those rules in small ways. Then the war moves close enough to ask what their faith will cost.
Why it matters in cinema history
A late flowering of classical Hollywood humanism, it treats pacifism as an everyday practice rather than a slogan, and it was made by a screenwriter who could not take credit because of the blacklist.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of how principles live in small daily compromises before they are ever tested by a crisis.
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