The Best Years of Our Lives

War’s end meant three veterans were going home, but none of them quite knew what they’d left there. A banker, a soda jerk, and a sergeant walk into a post-war town where small-town life has shrunk their ambitions and their selves. The hoped-for homecoming turns out to be just the latest installment in the sequel nobody asked for.

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William Wyler directed The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. See William Wyler's full filmography, where to start with William Wyler, or where to go after you've seen everything by William Wyler.

The Best Years of Our Lives was released in 1946 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 171 minutes.