Winter Soldier is a compelling oral history based on the testimony that more than two hundred soldiers, sailors, and marines gave at the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit about atrocities committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam. Made by a collective of more than a dozen independent documentary makers, the film combines this often harrowing testimony with newsreel footage and still photographs. What emerges is a wrenching portrait of what critic Vincent Canby aptly described as “men trying to make some sense of an experience that to them clearly makes no sense.”