A Time Out of War

Year: 1954

Runtime: 23 mins

Language: English

Director: Denis Sanders

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Black‑and‑white UCLA student film archived by the Academy. In the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers fire across a brook, then agree to a one‑hour truce that sparks a brief friendship. Based on Robert W. Chambers’s 1897 story “Pickets,” it won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two‑Reel) and entered the National Film Registry in 2007.

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