Background: Joyeux Noël movie poster showing three white men wearing winter military uniforms of different nationalities walking through the snow together. Text: Joyeux Noël / Film Screening

Film Screening: "Joyeux Noël" (Dec. 2024)

Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 | 11 a.m. Auditorium

Join us for our holiday tradition: a special screening of the 2005 Oscar-nominated film “Joyeux Noël”! The French film recreates the events of the 1914 Christmas Truce, when French, British and German soldiers along a section of the Western Front put down their arms to celebrate a moment of peace in a time of war. 

Runtime 116 minutes. Rated PG-13. 

Free with RSVP | Auditorium 

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Learn More: 1914 Christmas Truce
Crop of a painting depicting five WWI soldiers standing outside bundled up in coats, scarves and uniform hats, laughing and smoking cigars.

On Christmas Eve of 1914, along parts of the Western and Eastern fronts in Europe, a spontaneous truce was declared among the weary, entrenched combatants of World War I. Was this a miracle? Was it a myth? Explore these questions in The Christmas Truce, Winter 1914, an online exhibition featuring dozens of firsthand accounts from men on the front lines and insights from Great War experts. Be inspired by the stories from these soldiers who laid down their weapons in a time of war to share a moment of peace.