On Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers on both sides of the trenches forge an intimate, heartwarming, and melancholy truce.
Earnest. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating. Based on true events.
Streaming on The Roku Channel (free) and YouTube (free).
No sex or nudity and mild language, about what a PG-13 should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated PG-13.
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France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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