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“The elegant, elegiac Vietnam War history we need.” –Lisa Kennedy, VarietyIn 1968, six young Black men were assembled into the U.S. Army's first all-Black special operations unit, tasked with some of the most dangerous missions of the Vietnam War, spending weeks at a time behind enemy lines with no one to rely on but each other. When they came home, few wanted to hear what they had been through. Most stayed quiet for decades.
Ed Emanuel broke that silence in 2003 with a memoir that eventually found its way back to his fellow soldiers. Director J.M. Harper picks up the story there, gathering the surviving members of the unit for what would be their final reunion. Drawing on Super 8 footage the men shot themselves in Vietnam, intimate present-day interviews, and spare, carefully considered reenactments, Harper reconstructs a chapter of American military history that has long gone unacknowledged.
What emerges is less a war film than a portrait of men still carrying the weight of a war that never fully let them go.
-Siff
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