war widows

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

Karen Spears reflects on how her father's death in Vietnam impacted her family and shares the story of how her mother worked to keep their family together.

The author lost her husband in an Apache army helicopter crash in Iraq twenty years after her own mother was widowed due to a plane crash which Artis survived but her father did not. She manages to overcome two generations of tragedy to go on with her life at the age of twenty-six.

Sixteen potential brides arrive in Plum Grove, Nebraska, where they risk everything to fulfill their dream of owning land and finding love, turning the townspeople upside down in the process.

Thirty-five-year-old Erin Foley, having raised her younger siblings, decides to hole up in a secluded cabin near Virgin River to take stock of her life, but her plans to spend time meditating and journaling are disrupted by Aiden Riordan, a doctor recharging for a summer after being discharged from the military.

Abby Stanton, the widow of a former NFL player who went to Iraq to serve the country, tries to cope her own grief and that of his family members while trying to get uncover the facts surrounding her husband's death.

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. This book is based on the testimonies of sixty female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff.