Winter Soldier
Byrnzie
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Anyone else seen this?
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVQrkWhksQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVQrkWhksQ
Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8qYd68rxE
Winter Soldier Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iLoXIpJFQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iLoXIpJFQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Soldier_%28film%29
Winter Soldier is a 1972 documentary film chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation which took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971. The film documents the accounts of United States soldiers who returned from Vietnam, and participated in this war crimes hearing.
War crimes allegations
The film, shot largely in black and white, features testimony by soldiers who claim that they participated in or witnessed the killing of civilians, including children; mutilation of bodies; indiscriminate razing of villages; throwing prisoners out of helicopters; and other acts of cruelty towards Vietnamese civilians and combatants. Some participants also claimed that these acts reflected orders from higher-up officers. A number of soldiers are quoted stating that their military training failed to include instruction in the terms of the Geneva Convention, while others state that the dangers they faced as soldiers created an environment in which they regarded all Vietnamese as hostile "gooks" and stopped seeing them as human beings.
In testimony by Joseph Bangert, he describes traveling in a "truckload of grunt Marines" when "there were some Vietnamese children at the gateway of the village and they gave the old finger gesture at us. It was understandable that they picked this up from GIs there. They stopped the trucks -- they didn't stop the truck, they slowed down a little bit, and it was just like response, the guys got up, including the lieutenants, and just blew all the kids away. There were about five or six kids blown away, and then the truck just continued down the hill."
In addition to soldiers' testimony, the film provides photographic evidence to support some of its allegations.
Reception
At the time of its original release in 1972, "Winter Soldier" was greeted with skepticism and largely ignored by the mainstream media. "Only the local Detroit Free Press bothered to confirm the veracity of accounts and the credentials of participants," reported Johnny Ray Huston in a 2005 review of the film and its impact. "Television primarily turned a blind eye, and conservative publications like the Detroit News cast doubt on the allegations made without offering any specific proof of deception."[2] The ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS television networks were offered opportunities to broadcast the film but declined.[3] For the first 30 years after its release, the film was shown sporadically in arthouse settings.
In 2005, the film was re-released in theaters, this time attracting mostly favorable reviews. Writing in the Washington Post, Ann Hornaday called it "a riveting example of pure filmic storytelling. ... 'Winter Soldier' is an important historical document, an eerily prescient antiwar plea and a dazzling example of filmmaking at its most iconographically potent. But at its best, it is the eloquent, unforgettable tale of profound moral reckoning."[4]
The movie review Web site Rotten Tomatoes, where established film critics' reviews are collected and an aggregate "Tomatometer" rating given to each film, lists "Winter Soldier" as 100% on the Tomatometer, with unanimous positive reviews of the film.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVQrkWhksQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVQrkWhksQMovie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8qYd68rxEWinter Soldier Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iLoXIpJFQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iLoXIpJFQhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Soldier_%28film%29
Winter Soldier is a 1972 documentary film chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation which took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971. The film documents the accounts of United States soldiers who returned from Vietnam, and participated in this war crimes hearing.
War crimes allegations
The film, shot largely in black and white, features testimony by soldiers who claim that they participated in or witnessed the killing of civilians, including children; mutilation of bodies; indiscriminate razing of villages; throwing prisoners out of helicopters; and other acts of cruelty towards Vietnamese civilians and combatants. Some participants also claimed that these acts reflected orders from higher-up officers. A number of soldiers are quoted stating that their military training failed to include instruction in the terms of the Geneva Convention, while others state that the dangers they faced as soldiers created an environment in which they regarded all Vietnamese as hostile "gooks" and stopped seeing them as human beings.
In testimony by Joseph Bangert, he describes traveling in a "truckload of grunt Marines" when "there were some Vietnamese children at the gateway of the village and they gave the old finger gesture at us. It was understandable that they picked this up from GIs there. They stopped the trucks -- they didn't stop the truck, they slowed down a little bit, and it was just like response, the guys got up, including the lieutenants, and just blew all the kids away. There were about five or six kids blown away, and then the truck just continued down the hill."
In addition to soldiers' testimony, the film provides photographic evidence to support some of its allegations.
Reception
At the time of its original release in 1972, "Winter Soldier" was greeted with skepticism and largely ignored by the mainstream media. "Only the local Detroit Free Press bothered to confirm the veracity of accounts and the credentials of participants," reported Johnny Ray Huston in a 2005 review of the film and its impact. "Television primarily turned a blind eye, and conservative publications like the Detroit News cast doubt on the allegations made without offering any specific proof of deception."[2] The ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS television networks were offered opportunities to broadcast the film but declined.[3] For the first 30 years after its release, the film was shown sporadically in arthouse settings.
In 2005, the film was re-released in theaters, this time attracting mostly favorable reviews. Writing in the Washington Post, Ann Hornaday called it "a riveting example of pure filmic storytelling. ... 'Winter Soldier' is an important historical document, an eerily prescient antiwar plea and a dazzling example of filmmaking at its most iconographically potent. But at its best, it is the eloquent, unforgettable tale of profound moral reckoning."[4]
The movie review Web site Rotten Tomatoes, where established film critics' reviews are collected and an aggregate "Tomatometer" rating given to each film, lists "Winter Soldier" as 100% on the Tomatometer, with unanimous positive reviews of the film.
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Edit: I'll ask my English professor if he's seen it and try to get some input from him. He is very fascinated with the Vietnam War as am I.
this is what needs be understood...truth.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce