Diary of a Sergeant
WarDocumentary
Clips are not offered for this film: the US renewal records do not settle it.
Low resolution (300×240): this is the archive's own copy.
Parts
About
A Canadian-born, Boston-raised paratroop sergeant in World War II, Harold Russell lost both hands in a demolition accident and later appeared in this Army Signal Corps documentary in which he acted out the various phases of the rehabilitation process of an amputee. Director William Wyler saw the film while preparing "The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)" and cast Russell as the film's disabled returning veteran. For his performance in The Best Years of Our Lives, Russell won both the Academy Award as the year's Best Supporting Actor and a second, honorary Oscar "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans." He is the only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Short films
- Licence or status
- Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed