A young man who is described as hippy-esque receives a letter from a friend who is killed during the Vietnam war and grapples with the possibility of being drafted himself.

The daughter of draft-defying anarchists in the post-World War II era marries a man whose father died in the war. As their differing pasts lead to resentment in the present, she engages in deception and affairs as a means of finding freedom from his presence.

Despite his initial excitement at being drafted as an aidman in the war, a young man soon realizes that the demands of the job are far more than what he expected.

Three boys try to avoid being drafted into a war in a futuristic world where the government has crumbled into a backward, technologically primitive, Christian nation.

In 1920s Kentucky, the death of his wife leaves a farmer sorrowful and overwhelmed by his two young boys, leaving it up to his brother and parents to step in.

An adolescent runaway considers enlisting to fight in World War II so that he can escape getting involved in the crimes happening around him.

A depressed son and his father living in New York struggle to communicate to one another about the son’s fears for the future and the father’s concerns for his son.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.

A Confederate officer begrudgingly fights in the American Civil War until his disastrous last battle helps seal the fate of the war for good. After the war, he constantly repents for his critical mistakes until, decades later, he comes to a shocking revelation about the fateful battle.

A young woman meets a World War II soldier on a train to California and takes pity on the lonely and displaced life he has become indifferent to.