Let There Be Light

The last of John Huston's trilogy of films made for the U.S. government, this 1946 documentary observes returning combat veterans and the staff treating them for psychological scars rather than physical ones. The condition, now known as PTSD, was then classified as psychoneurosis or shell shock. Government officials judged the film counterproductive to postwar efforts, and it remained unseen by the public until 1981.