[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1945) WWII veterans: shell shock sequels, PTSD. Let there be light.

Join as a member to support this channel: John Huston’s World War II documentary Let There Be Light is so legendary for its censorship controversy that its sheer power as a film has been easy to miss. Produced by the U.S. Army in 1945, it pioneered unscripted interview techniques to take an unprecedented look into the psychological wounds of war. However, by the time the film was first allowed a public screening—in December 1980—its remarkable innovations in style and subject, which in the 1940s were at least a decade ahead of their time, could be taken as old hat. The subject of Let There Be Light is what we’d now label PTSD—post-traumatic stress disorder—among returning soldiers.