The Kill Team (2013 film)

The Kill Team
The Kill Team
	Film poster
Directed by	Dan Krauss
Produced by	Linda Davis; Julie Goldman; Deborah Hoffmann; Dan Krauss;
Cinematography	Dan Krauss
Edited by	Lawrence Lerew
Music by	Justin Melland
Production; companies	; Motto Pictures; Cinereach; ITVS;
Distributed by	Oscilloscope Pictures
Release dates	April 26, 2013 (Tribeca Film Festival); July 25, 2014 (United States);
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

Krauss later 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[]

^ 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 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
^ Manohla, Dargis (July 24, 2014). "5 Soldiers, 3 Afghans and Grisly Atrocities". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
^ Cipriani, Casey (May 15, 2014). "Watch: New Trailer For Tribeca Winning Documentary 'The Kill Team'". IndieWire. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
^ 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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[Salon-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 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.

[The_New_York_Times-2] Manohla, Dargis (July 24, 2014). "5 Soldiers, 3 Afghans and Grisly Atrocities". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.

[IndieWire-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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