Can the army train thousands of men to kill as a profession and not expect some to kill for sport? This is the devastating moral dilemma at the heart of this hard-hitting documentary that goes behind closed doors to tell the riveting story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who attempted, with the help of his father, to alert the military hierarchy to the heinous war crimes being committed by his platoon leader and fellow soldiers. But Private Winfield’s pleas were ignored. Scorned by his own platoon members who threatened to silence him permanently, and forced to choose between his conscience and his survival, Winfield finds himself drawn into a moral abyss, would change his life forever. With extraordinary access to the key individuals involved in the case and to the subsequent murder trial of the so-called ‘Kill Team’, Oscar and Emmy award nominated director and cinematographer Dan Krauss has delivered a wrenching film that is a balanced and nuanced investigation into one story that could easily have been lost inside the larger coverage of the longest war in US history. New York Times Winner: Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival; Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival. The Kill Team will be screening Saturday May 10th at 3:10pm during the festival!
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:56:06 +0000
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