The Winter Soldier Investigation (Reel 2) (sound)

Description: Content warning: The soundtrack of this film contains graphic and disturbing verbal testimony to war atrocities, as well as direct reference to racist epithets used to condition U.S. soldiers against Vietnamese people. The film also contains still images of mutilated dead bodies.

Footage from a documentary in which U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War recount horrific acts they witnessed in the war as part of the Winter Soldier Investigation, January 31, February 1, & 2, 1971, Detroit, Michigan.

201360 is Part 1 of 2, and 202146 is Part 2 of 2

Box notes: "Winter Soldier / Print 56 / Winterfilm 405 E. 13 N.Y.C. 10009"

Note inside can: "Winter Soldier (looks like first division)"

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Subjects: 1970s; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; War; Activism; War--Resistance to; Military

Tags: Vietnam veterans; war crimes; torture; murder; racism; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; VVAW; Indigenous people; anti-war movement; testimonies; accounts of horrific acts; killing of women and children; mutilation of bodies; mistreatment of civilians; dehumanizing people; chemical warfare; still images; torture by electric shock; images of elderly people and children; relocation of villages; body counts; sexual violence against women; racist attitudes; racist epithets

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Winterfilm Collective

Credits: In Order of Appearance

Barry Romo, 23

Joe Galbally, 23

John Beitzel, 21

Edward Murphy, 23

Ronald Palosaari, 23

James Weber, 24

Robert Kruch, 25

Curtis Windgrodski, 22

Gary Keyes, 22

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1971

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Michigan; Detroit, Michigan

Genre/Form: documentary, activist

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: color

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 868