The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Free Screening This program is presented in partnership with [Springfield Art Museum](http://www.sgfmuseum.org/), with support from the [Springfield Regional Arts Council](http://www.springfieldarts.org/) and the [Community Foundation of the Ozarks](http://cfozarks.org/). A memorable film about the aftermath of World War II in the United States., this film opens with the homecoming of three veterans to the same small town. The movie exposes the reality of altered lives and the inability to communicate the experience of war on the front lines or the home front.