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WRITING:
BIRD BY BIRD: ANNE LAMOTT
RAY BRADBURY
WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
SCREENWRITERS:
CARL FOREMAN
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
PAUL MAZURSKY
ELEANOR PERRY
NEIL SIMON
ROBERT TOWNE
MUSIC:
AARON COPLAND PORTRAIT
NEVER GIVE UP: HERBERT ZIPPER
SING!
PORTRAIT OF ZUBIN MEHTA
TO BE A MUSICIAN SERIES
ARTISTS:
EYES OF DON BACHARDY
INTERREGNUM/GROSZ
MAYA LIN
MIRIAM WOSK
WORLD ACCORDING TO DORA
BIOGRAPHY:
LILLIAN GISH
LEGEND OF MARILYN MONROE
ROSE KENNEDY
MEDICINE:
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
TO LIVE OR LET DIE
WAR:
A TIME OUT OF WAR
RETURN WITH HONOR
WAR HUNT
LIBRARY FILMS:
INTO THE FUTURE
SLOW FIRES
THE JAPAN PROJECT:
MADE IN AMERICA
MADE IN JAPAN
MOVIES:
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, USA
LOS ANGELS
THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY
Civil War soldierRobert W. Chambers PicketsConfederate soldierFederation soldier

A Time Out of War

Directed and Written by Denis Sanders
Photographed by Terry Sanders
Produced by Denis and Terry Sanders
22 Minutes

A Time Out of WarOscar-winning dramatic short film based on the Robert W. Chambers story, "Pickets." It is about Civil War soldiers on two sides of a river who decide to call a cease-fire for a few hours -- creating a "time out of war."

"A Time Out of War" named to National Film Registry
 
A Time Out of War, the Oscar-winning Civil War short story film produced by Denis and Terry Sanders in 1954, was among 25 films named, December 27, 2006, to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Congress created the Registry in 1989 to preserve films of "cultural, historical and artistic significance." The List now numbers 450. 


Click to Read "A Tale of Two Brothers:
Oscar-Winning Student Film Added to National Film Registry"

in Point of View Magazine, Spring 2007
UCLA, School of Theater, Film and Television
"The most powerful argument against war ever filmed."
- London Evening News

"One of the finest 'shorts' ever made... It is about a tiny incident in the American Civil War; a half day's truce between one Southern and two Northern soldiers who are guarding the opposing banks of a river. For taste, for poetic restraint, and as a commentary on the folly of war, it has never been bettered."
- Manchester Guardian
Academy Award, Best Short Subject
British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Special Award
Venice Film Festival, First Prize
Richard Winnington Memorial Award
Screen Producers Guild, First Prize
Oberhausen Film Festival, Special Award
Edinburgh Film Festival
International Federation of Film Societies, First Prize
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