Michelangelo (Tony) Vaccaro fought WWII from the unique perspective of two sights…the first was the sight of his M1 Garand rifle as a combat infantryman and the second was the sight of his still camera that he had strapped around his neck. Turned down by the Army’s Signal Corps to be an official photographer, Tony was determined to photograph his war experiences while fighting with the 83rd Division. That determination produced an astonishing collection of over 3000 combat images in the ETO (European Theater of Operations) from Normandy through Berlin.

After the war, Tony became one of the most successful photographers of the 20th century, photographing personalities like Picasso, John F. Kennedy, Georgia O’Keefe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stravinsky, Federico Fellini, and Sophia Loren for such renowned magazines as Life and Look. But Tony’s true photographic legacy remains his matchless WWII collection.

Coming Home: The Journey of Tony Vaccaro is the documentary film that retraces Tony’s WWII journey by exploring 15 of his most powerful combat images. While revisiting the exact locations where he first photographed these images as a 20-year-old GI, Tony proves to be a master storyteller bringing life to the names and events that his lens captured over 65 years ago. It is a very personal voyage of reflection, which has taken Tony a lifetime to understand.