If you scroll down this page, you will see that we started voting five days ago on the best Mormon-themed movie. In an extremely close vote, Saints and Soldiers edged out “Napoleon Dynamite” and “New York Doll.”
Just a word on “Saints and Soldiers:” it is an excellent movie, and I think many Latter-day Saints would agree that the best scene is the one in which the Deacon (a returned missionary from Germany) tries to shoot at a fleeing German, but misses an easy shot. He later learns that the German is a good friend from his mission, and he was apparently meant to miss. There is a touching scene of reconciliation and friendship where we are reminded that the faceless German soldiers are sons of God who are difficult to hate once you see them face-to-face.
“Saints and Soldiers” is a sometimes gory war movie (my wife found it too violent, for example), but it is exciting, with good acting, good character development and a faith-promoting look at how an American missionary tried to reconcile love of country with love of his fellow men, even those who were temporarily his enemies.