In 1970, a young British director Michael Grigsby made one of the first films about veterans returning home from the Vietnam war – the critically acclaimed and award winning – I Was a Soldier.
The film focused on David, Dennis, and Lamar; three young soldiers recently returned from combat, as they tried to readjust to life back home in the heartlands of Texas, after a year on the frontline.
Some 40 years after the film’s first release, I Was a Soldier is hailed as “a classic” (Sight & Sound), and now poignantly echoes the experiences of those men and women struggling to reclaim such familiarity now, in the aftermath of Iraq and as the war in Afghanistan rages on.
We Went to War sees filmmakers Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley, return to the stories of those once young Americans, now aged and scarred by lives lived far too brutally, far too young and finds a shared sense of understanding with those returning from the frontline today.
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