“Made in 1972, Winter Soldier has the otherworldly yet firmly earthbound immediacy of the best documentaries of its era, in particular, the black-and-white work of William Klein, Frederick Wiseman, and the Maysles brothers. Voices and faces are the main ingredients here: the participants in the Winter Soldier investigation testify to the atrocities they witnessed and took part in while in Vietnam. . . . This is no Oliver Stone leap into Samuel Barber–scored heroic tragedy, just an unflinchingly clear-eyed extended gaze at military-brand, all-American inhumanity-the racism, emotionally cauterized machismo, and governmental evil that result in mass bloodshed. When 109 Vietnam veterans and sixteen civilians gathered at a Howard Johnson's in Detroit to discuss a war that was still raging, the media reacted with skepticism, if at all. . . . If a collective of filmmakers-including people who've gone on to put history on celluloid in Harlan County, USA; Regret to Inform; and The Word Is Out-hadn't been present, the human impact of war would not have been captured.”--Johnny Ray Huston, S.F. Bay Guardian