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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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