John Benitz

Michael Lucas est en route pour Bangkok, première étape d'un voyage destiné à trouver des capitaux pour sa société de Wall Street. L'affaire semble aisée pour lui, jeune loup habitué au monde du business sans foi ni loi où argent et pouvoir sont les seules motivations. Mais ici, c'est une autre jungle qui l'attend Au moment où il passe la frontière du ViêtNam, tout chavire. A des milliers kilomètres de chez lui, il se retrouve blessé, perdu dans la jungle, quelque part au nord de Chiang Mai. Recueilli par une jeune fille thaie, il se croit tiré d'affaire. Mais le cauchemar n'est pas terminé. Désormais il doit fuir ou se battre...

In 1964's Freedom Summer, a white housewife from Chicago was killed fighting for Civil Rights, leaving behind a young son. This is the story of his journey, as a man, to find out who his mother was and why she died.

Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written

Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the film tells the story of Carroll, who travels the world to seek out the greatest war letters ever written

In 1964's Freedom Summer, a white housewife from Chicago was killed fighting for Civil Rights, leaving behind a young son. This is the story of his journey, as a man, to find out who his mother was and why she died.

In John B. Benitz’s documentary Behind the Lines, you might end up questioning whether history should just be written by historians. Based on Andrew Carroll’s New York Times best seller Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters and inspired by a subsequent stage play, Benitz’s film tells the story of Carroll’s life mission to travel the world seeking out war letters. Over the past 25 years, he has preserved more than 200,000 correspondences from troops, veterans and their families, dating from the American Revolution to present day Ukraine. In Behind the Lines, we accompany Carroll on his continuing quest; one of fact finding but also tremendously emotional. This is captured evocatively when letters written by soldiers, some of whom having lost their lives only a day after having written them, are read by various actors such as Laura Dern and Gary Cole. The film is narrated by Annette Bening. – Adam Schartoff