THE KILL TEAM (2013)

 

Directed by: Dan Krauss
Starring: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield, Alaina Winfield, Alex Winfield, Jeremy Morlock, Andrew Holmes, Justin Stoner, Stephen Xenakis, Eric Montalvo

79 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, scenes of war, graphic images)

PLOT:
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.