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On January 31, 1971 more, than 125 Vietnam veterans, representing every major combat unit
to see action in the war, gathered at a Howard Johnson's hotel in Detroit to heal a nation
and themselves. They risked everything - their careers, their friendships, their families -
to talk about the atrocities, they had committed or witnessed in the presence of officers,
while stationed in Vietnam. These veterans saw themselves as winter soldiers battling against
the wrongs of the war and the brutal training that had made them capable of unthinkable
violence. Eighteen filmmakers, calling themselves the Winterfilm Collective, captured this
extraordinary event. Rarely seen since its 1972 Cannes premiere, Winter Soldier has been
called one of the most powerful anti-war films ever made and remains to this day a remarkable
plea for peace.
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