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War Horse is a 2011 American war film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name and its 2007 stage adaptation.
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
forced to give up his horse to the army, emotional goodbye, tears, comfort, eye injury from poisonous gas, eyes bandaged, tended to, bruised eye, emotional reunion with his horse