directed by: Alexandre Moors, year: 2017
actors: Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette

An Iraq War–set drama adapted from Kevin Powers’s novel, The Yellow Birds follows two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, whose dangerous mission fractures their bond and leaves them haunted by guilt. Amid mounting casualties and desert silence, they wrestle with memory, duty, and the moral cost of war. The film blends intimate character study with stark battlefield imagery to explore loyalty, trauma, and the consequences of choices when lives are at stake.

Contemporary War, War Drama, Psychological War Drama, Iraq War, Adaptation, Trauma