Bedford: The Town They Left Behind

2006 • 77 minutes

About this movie

War. The Home Front. The costs of service to ones country and the ongoing human phenomenon of armed conflict. Bedford: The Town They Left Behind, explores these universal issues through the eyes of one small Virginia town and the boys of its National Guard unit who laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom as the first to land on D-Day in 1944. Sixty years later, echoes of the past travel with the young, fresh-faced members of that same unit, from the same families and from the same town, as they are deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. This timely cross-generational story at various moments tragic, romantic and inspiring is a thought-provoking, emotional look at those who go to the battlefronts and those they leave behind.