Father Soldier Son

Father Soldier Son (2020) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Sergeant First Class Brian Eisch is raising two boys on his own when a deployment to Afghanistan and a single wound rewrite the shape of his family's future.

New York Times journalists Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn followed the Eisch family across roughly a decade. We meet Isaac and Joey as kids counting down to their dad's return from the war, then watch them grow into teenagers carrying both his injury and his example. The camera stays in the room for the hard parts: rehab, a prosthetic leg, a new partner moving in, the quiet at the dinner table.

What sets it apart is patience. Instead of chasing one dramatic day, the film tracks how sons come of age beside a father who came home changed, and it refuses easy lines about duty and the cost of service. If you'd rather sit with a real family than a staged war movie, this one lands. Stream Father Soldier Son (2020) online on iFILM.