Home by Christmas

Home by Christmas

93 minutes 2010 HD

  • Share

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.

img
  • Subtitle
    Subtitel HD
    • 1 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 2 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 3 - Subtitel - HD
      Watch HD
    • 4 - Subtitel - HD
This video option does not contain pop-up windows and the load is optimal, you can watch without cuts.

Similar Movies

  • 2006
    img

    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.7 2006 HD

    The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as...

    img
  • 1986
    img

    Children of a Lesser God

    Children of a Lesser God

    6.91 1986 HD

    Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the...

    img
  • 2004
    img

    Or (My Treasure)

    Or (My Treasure)

    6.9 2004 HD

    Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother...

    img
  • 2007
    img

    Away from Her

    Away from Her

    6.991 2007 HD

    Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of...

    img
  • 2002
    img

    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11

    6.5 2002 HD

    Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

    img
  • 2004
    img

    Me and My Sister

    Me and My Sister

    5.6 2004 HD

    Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine,...

    img
  • 1958
    img

    Rita

    Rita

    0 1958 HD

    img
  • 2012
    img

    The Horses of McBride

    The Horses of McBride

    6.3 2012 HD

    When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to find a way to get them to safety. With no other...

    img
  • 1970
    img

    All Five Eyes

    All Five Eyes

    0 1970 HD

    Set in a small English village in 1967, liberated Marion is exploring the new social freedoms enjoyed by women in the late 1960s while conscientious...

    img
  • 1935
    img

    Heaven-Bound Travelers

    Heaven-Bound Travelers

    4 1935 HD

    Heaven-Bound Travelers (circa 1935) was discovered among the rolls of film in the Gist collection at the Library of Congress by S. Torriano Berry...

    img
  • 1933
    img

    Verdict: Not Guilty

    Verdict: Not Guilty

    4 1933 HD

    Part religious allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer...

    img
  • 2003
    img

    American Splendor

    American Splendor

    7.176 2003 HD

    An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

    img
  • 1990
    img

    An Angel at My Table

    An Angel at My Table

    7.016 1990 HD

    Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with...

    img
  • 2023
    img

    Royalteen: Princess Margrethe

    Royalteen: Princess Margrethe

    6.5 2023 HD

    In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family...

    img
  • 2014
    img

    Hellion

    Hellion

    5.83 2014 HD

    When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and...

    img
  • 2014
    img

    Infinitely Polar Bear

    Infinitely Polar Bear

    6.6 2014 HD

    A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who...

    img
  • 2007
    img

    Pietà

    Pietà

    4 2007 HD

    Maria's ex-boyfriend Kristian is homeless and moves back in with Maria. Maria works as a nurse at the home of Eeva, a paralyzed writer.

    img
  • 2012
    img

    Daimi

    Daimi

    7 2012 HD

    Daimi is 12 years. It's Christmas, and she has tragically been left in a dark home with her only friend, a pet pig. Daimi's imagination overshadows...

    img
  • 1985
    img

    Tales of Meeting and Parting

    Tales of Meeting and Parting

    5 1985 HD

    Tales of Meeting and Parting is a 1985 English language short film directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, starring Jeanne Sakata, Patricia Ayame Thomson...

    img
  • 2001
    img

    Silent Grace

    Silent Grace

    0 2001 HD

    In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating...

    img