Winter Soldier

In 1972, a film was made using statements from the Winter Soldier investigation:



This was a public investigation, not Congressional or formal in any way, into atrocities of perpetrated by U.S. and allied forces during the Vietnam War. This was in the wake of the My Lai massacre, which was reported as an isolated incident. Winter Solder demonstrated that, although an extreme occurrence, these atrocities were "SOP" (Standard Operating Procedure) and by no means unusual.

This all seems like ancient history: it took place when I was about seven years old, but a new Winter Soldier project has been set up, both in America and Europe (but not the U.K., strangely) to document Afghanistan and Iraq.