Interviews with My Lai Veterans

On March 16, 1968, in the course of the “search and destroy” mission in My Lai, hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese men, women, and children were slaughtered by American soldiers; many were also raped or mutilated. Initially the military lied about the number of victims, but photographs and eyewitness accounts finally made their way into the press more than a year later. In an effort to “understand this insanity,” filmmaker Joseph Strick and his crew searched throughout the United States to find the five veterans willing to disobey the army’s orders not to talk about the massacre.