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Summer Screening Series continues with "Winter Soldier"
Thursday Jul 30, 8PM @ Red Emma's
July is drawing to a close but here at Red Emma's we're still rolling out with great films. We hope you'll join us, on these Baltimore summer nights, for more of our Summer Screening Series!
This Thursday, we continue with the documentary Winter Soldier.
The film...
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 - including Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA), Robert Fiore (Pumping Iron) and Lucy Massie Phenix (You Got to Move) - 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. Bonus features include a conversation with the film-makers, several shorts from 1971, the making of Winter Soldier and a stills gallery from the original negatives of Vietnam Veterans Against The War phtotographer Sheldon Ramsdell.
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