Winter Soldier

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Winter Soldier

1972,

1h 35m,

Documentary

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This landmark documentary chronicles a 1971 meeting during which more than 100 American veterans spoke publicly at a Detroit motel about the inhumanity and brutality of the Vietnam War. Attempting to add context to the recently uncovered My Lai Massacre of 1968, the soldiers, a group that includes future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry, recall witnessing atrocities committed against Vietnamese soldiers, unarmed civilians, children and prisoners of war.

Fernando F. Croce

Slant Magazine

Apr 3, 2006

3/4

Like Hearts and Minds and Fahrenheit 9/11, Winter Soldier is less documentary than in-the-heat-of-conflict document, too close to the bone for "distance."

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Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

Dec 15, 2005

The film is an important historical document, an eerily prescient antiwar plea and a dazzling example of moviemaking at its most iconographically potent. But at its best, it is the eloquent, unforgettable tale of profound moral reckoning.

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Sean P. Means

Film.com

Nov 11, 2005

3.5/4

The most chilling aspect of "Winter Soldier" is that, 34 years down the road, it feels fresh.

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

Aug 23, 2017

The voices and faces of the Vietnam vets interviewed in the film give blunt testament to the tragic sameness of all wars.

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Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly

Jun 12, 2006

3/4

For an America enduring another summer of discontent in Iraq, Winter Soldier horrifically seems to prove that what's past is indeed prologue.

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

May 30, 2006

3.25/5

No matter one's politics, this grainy black-and-white documentary can't fail but be convincing %u2013 and harrowing.

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Hermione M

Nov 3, 2018

An irreproachable, rousing anti-war film. One of the best in the genre!

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Synopsis

This landmark documentary chronicles a 1971 meeting during which more than 100 American veterans spoke publicly at a Detroit motel about the inhumanity and brutality of the Vietnam War. Attempting to add context to the recently uncovered My Lai Massacre of 1968, the soldiers, a group that includes future Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry, recall witnessing atrocities committed against Vietnamese soldiers, unarmed civilians, children and prisoners of war.

Producer: Fred Aronow, Nancy Baker, Rhetta Barron, Robert Fiore, David Grubin, Barbara Jarvis, Barbara Kopple, Michael Lesser, Nancy Miller, Lucy Massie Phenix
Production Co: Winterfilm Collective, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 27, 1972, Limited
Release Date (DVD): Sep 15, 2009
Runtime: 1h 35m

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