From the constant work of research and restoration of ancient war films at the Istituto Luce in Rome; to the daily life of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Crisis Unit with its monitors permanently lit up on the world; from the training of young soldiers who learn how to produce war images at the Ecpad (Military Archive and Image Agency of the French Ministry of Defence); to the preservation of the precious archives of the International Red Cross kept at the Swiss Film Library in Lausanne, War and Peace tells us how the aesthetics of war, much more than the aesthetics of peace, has always accompanied us, reflecting and projecting itself into the ephemeral present that surrounds us.