Silent Night is a 2002 television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II and is loosely based on true events.

A German mother, Elisabeth Vincken (Linda Hamilton), who had already lost her eldest son in the Battle of Stalingrad and whose husband is a cook serving in the German Army, and her younger son, Fritz, are seeking refuge in their family's hunting cabin near the front lines in the Ardennes forests region of western Europe.

After much resistance the mother manages to convince the enemy soldiers to put aside their differences for one night and share a Christmas dinner.

As he learns of what has happened he turns his rifle on the American soldiers and begins talking with the Germans.

This is due to an earlier conversation where both senior officers expressed their concern to each other that the teen wouldn't survive.