Diary of a Sergeant (1945)
• July 1st, 1945 • 0h 22min
Documentary
Overview
Harold Russell, an American soldier who lost his hands in a training accident, tells the story of his medical rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, how he and his fellow amputees at the hospital at first despaired and then found new hope in the prostheses and training available to amputees through the Army's medical corps. Russell learns to wear and to operate the hooks which replace his hands and becomes competent to perform many tasks he had once thought no longer possible. Discharged from the Army, he is welcomed into Boston College by college president William J. Murphy, S.J.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Diana, 7 Days
Released on: 2017-08-27
Documentary
In August 1997, the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, stunned her family and catapulted the ...
Graffiti Wars
Released on: 2011-08-14
Documentary, TV Movie
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
The Pity of War
Released on: 2014-02-28
Documentary, History, War
Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...
Aghet
Released on: 2010-04-09
Documentary, History
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
Here and Elsewhere
Released on: 1976-09-15
Documentary
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...
Sorcières : chronique d'un massacre
Released on: 2025-10-11
Documentary, History, Drama, Crime
In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...
The In Between
Released on: 2024-09-29
Documentary
Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the...
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
Released on: 2015-05-01
Documentary
The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...
We Are Many
Released on: 2014-06-08
Documentary
The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, aga...
The Auschwitz Trial
Released on: 2013-01-02
Documentary
The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the...
The Fog of War
Released on: 2003-10-26
Documentary, TV Movie, History, War
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
Safeguarding Military Information
Released on: 1942-01-16
Documentary
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary, History
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
Released on: 2024-10-10
Documentary
Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and...
maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
Released on: 2020-01-26
Documentary
An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwes...
Accidental Anarchist
Released on: 2017-07-23
Documentary
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...
The War Around Us
Released on: 2014-01-21
Documentary
In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the...
Mrs. Fang
Released on: 2018-06-13
Documentary
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...