Personal Accounts | The personal stories of military service provide compelling accounts of those who have served and a deeper understanding of our nation’s military history. Each of the features below is a window into a documentary or program about personal stories of service. Get started now. Select a film to start watching. And be sure to come back to check out new additions in this rotating collection.
Veterans Coming Home
Follow a team of veteran and civilian mediamakers as they travel across the country to help close the military-civilian divide.
Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades
Follow survivors of perhaps the fiercest battle of WWII as they return to Iwo Jima for a Reunion of Honor on the only battlefield where former enemies reunite.
Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History
Take an unflinching look at the reality of warfare and disability through interviews with prominent disabled veterans.
On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam
Examines the Latino experience during a war that placed its heaviest burden on working-class youth and their communities.
The Homefront
View portraits of America’s military families — their pride, sacrifice and resilience — with unprecedented access to soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen and women in the all-volunteer military.
Web Series: Welcome Home From This Old House
These webisodes follow four American heroes, telling their inspiring stories of service and recovery, as they start new lives in specially-built homes.
This Old House: The Veteran’s Special House Project
This Old House partners with Homes for Our Troops to build a specially adapted home for Army Staff Sergeant Matthew DeWitt.
Telling: San Antonio
Telling: San Antonio, a three-part play, helps give a voice to veterans and their families.
Sacred Journeys: Lourdes
Journey to the Catholic shrine of Lourdes, France with active duty and retired U.S. veterans in search of healing.
Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey
The training is tough as the U.S. sled hockey team of iron-willed players - including military veterans wounded in action - prepares for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
MAKERS: Women in War
A look at the history of American women’s increasing participation in war—from Vietnam to the present—as nurses, soldiers, journalists, diplomats and spies.
Coming Back with Wes Moore
A 3-part series that tells the story of Moore’s search for answers to some of the most difficult questions facing veterans returning from war. His journey, spurred by the suicide of one of his oldest friends and a fellow officer, takes him into th...
Coming Home San Antonio
Look at the issues and challenges veterans and their families face as they try to re-integrate as a family while building a new life as civilians.
StoryCorps
StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative provides post-9/11 veterans, service members, and their families the opportunity to record and share their stories with the public
War Letters
Based on newly discovered personal correspondence from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War, War Letters brings to life vivid eyewitness accounts from the front, and how they transformed a nation.
Vietnam Veterans Recount Their War Experiences
A portrait of the Vietnam War told entirely from the perspective of veterans.
War and Peace
While Latino Americans serve their country during WWII by the hundreds of thousands, they still face discrimination and a fight for civil rights back in the United States.
