“Winter soldier” – truth about American war in Vietnam
Why does it take 35 years?
The answer is right in the first scenes when a veteran tells in details about American war crimes in
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This obsession is like a delay bomb in them, the fuse of which is the massacre in
They must tell the American people the truth behind the American unjust war in
The American mass media turned its back on this. The investigation would fall into obscurity if one group of documentary filmmakers against war hadn’t filmed/ recorded the whole press conference.
It took them 8 months to design the film, to carefully select scenes of 36 hours to make a 95-minute valuable film named “Winter Soldier” (“Winter challenges the people’s spirit” said American Intellectual Thomas Paine – 18th Century).
Making film drove people tired and some gave it up halfway for the pressure, the complexity of the truth unveiled through witness statements and the significance to finish the film.
Even though Winter Soldier was shown afterwards and echoed in some European film festivals, it was seen then as a film of controversial arguments in
Only till Sept. 2005, the film showed up again in some small cinemas in
This is an old documentary film but still up-to-date. It’s a present for American Pilot Hugh Thompson, who regardless of military order, rescued dozens of Vietnamese victims from the massacre by the American Army in My Lai, Quang Ngai.
In spite of being shown in a new time and context, the Winter Soldier is still welcomed and highly appreciated as a warning to the American government on the
According to Curly Cohen – reporter of weekly newspaper People, Winter Soldier should be shown at all schools in