If organizing in the name of peace is not an activity you normally associate with four-star Generals, this documentary may hold some fascinating surprises. It is a study of eight retired NATO generals who together took part in Europe's Year of Peace as "Generals for Peace and Disarmament," and who continue to meet regularly. Coming from eight nations and with distinctly differing backgrounds and experience, what they share is an abhorrence of the build-up of nuclear arms with first-strike capability in Europe-an educated abhorrence born of their proximity to top-level military strategy. One a divisional leader, one a supreme commander, one a head of state-eight successful military careers have culminated in an urgent transformation into strategists for peace. The film, made by a team from England, The Netherlands, Greece and East Germany, is a portrait of the men and their times. The Generals themselves, in describing their military lives, present a study of recent European history, showing the radical changes in European military policy since the alliance against Hitler. In particular, they describe the growing imbalance of power in which the American presence looms ever larger. (In NATO there is a category above "Top Secret": "For American Eyes Only.") Theirs is a plea for a return to common sense in nuclear issues, a return to fairness in military politics on "this unhappy continent," Europe. Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann have made 38 films since 1969 under the rubric of Studio H & S in East Berlin. They are, in their own words, "political artists," and their subject is the great changes of our epoch, focusing on decisive battles between revolution and counter-revolution in many parts of the world. (They have made nine films in Chile and fourteen in Vietnam.) In the tradition of Dziga Vertov, theirs is a "creative laboratory" and their films combine poster and poem, report and portrait, essay and anecdote to offer a strongly analytical approach.