The Kill Team (2013 film)

The Kill Team is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Dan Krauss about the Maywand District murders during the War in Afghanistan. The film won first place in the category of Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.[1][2][3]

The Kill Team
The Kill Team
Film poster
Directed byDan Krauss
Produced by
  • Linda Davis
  • Julie Goldman
  • Deborah Hoffmann
  • Dan Krauss
CinematographyDan Krauss
Edited byLawrence Lerew
Music byJustin Melland
Production
companies
Distributed byOscilloscope Pictures
Release dates
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Krauss later wrote and directed The Kill Team (2019), a narrative drama film about the murders.[4]

Summary

This documentary exposes the stresses and aggressions of soldiers at war, in which a few are driven by boredom, anger, hatred, social pressure, or sociopathy to commit war crimes. Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to the murders his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded. Pressured by threats to his life from his superior and other members of his unit, Winfield was drawn into a moral abyss and forced to make a split-second decision that changed his life forever. The film follows him and his family through wartime events and the legal proceedings that followed, interspersed with interviews of the soldiers in his platoon and photos and video footage from Afghanistan.

References
  1. O'Hehir, Andrew (July 24, 2014). ""The Kill Team": When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters". Salon. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  2. Manohla, Dargis (July 24, 2014). "5 Soldiers, 3 Afghans and Grisly Atrocities". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 6, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  3. Cipriani, Casey (May 15, 2014). "Watch: New Trailer For Tribeca Winning Documentary 'The Kill Team'". IndieWire. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. Roman, Julian (October 25, 2019). "The Kill Team Review: A Riveting True Story of War Crimes". MovieWeb. Retrieved December 23, 2021.


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