WINTER SOLDIER

Year: 1972
UK: Stoney Road Films
Cast: Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell, Scott Camil, John Kerry, Steve Pitkin, Jonathan Birch, Charles Stevens, Fred Nienke, David Bishop, Nathan Hale, Michael Hunter, Murphy Lloyd, Carl Rippberger, Evan Haney, Robert Clark, Gordon Stewart, Curtis Windgrodsky, Gary Keyes, Allan Akers, William Hatton, Joseph Galbally, Edmund Murphy, James Duffy, Scott Moore, Mark Lenix, Thomas Heidtman, Dennis Caldwell, James Henry
Director: The Winterfilm Collective
Country: USA
UK: 96 mins
UK Certificate: tbc
UK Release Date: 15 May 2008 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 8 May 2008 (Limited Release - London, ICA)

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Synopsis

WINTER SOLDIER is a stunning documentary made by the Winterfilm Collective of an incident recounting the horrors of a particular incident that occurred during the Vietnam War.

In 1971, one month after the notorious My Lai massacre, 100 Vietnam veterans gathered in a Detroit hotel conference room to testify to the horrors and crimes they had witnessed and committed during combat.

Although not covered in the news at the time, the meeting was recorded by an anonymous filmmaking collective and turned into an angry, haunted and essential documentary-cum-confessional that went virtually unseen for more than 30 years. As with the classic SHOAH, this vital time capsule presents the horrors of war unadorned.