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There is the amazing 1946 documentary of WW2 soldiers being treated for PTSD. It was made by Major John Huston for the army. John Huston is the famed Hollywood film director. He had already made The Maltese Falcon.

The film, known to the U.S. Army as PMF 5019, is more widely known as “Let There Be Light”. The film was banned by the army as not being great for recruitment. It was not released until the 1980s. It was not staged, but intimately records real soldiers in one on one sessions with their army therapists, getting treatment etc. All in high level Hollywood standard film quality, editing etc.

It starts off with “About 20% of all battle casualties in the American Army during World War Ii were of a neuropsychiatric nature”.

It goes for a little under an hour and it is on youtube.

https://youtu.be/KKSAGjceSKs

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Thanks mate. Great find.

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