Vid of the Week: Soccer and the Christmas Truce

A student-produced short film made in the early 2000s, "The Truce" re-creates the Christmas Day Truce of 1914.

German and British soldiers took a one-day reprieve from the early butchery of WWI and exchanged gifts and played soccer in an act that the historian Paul Fussell has called "the last twitch of the 19th century."

- John C.L. Morgan