Parental guidence suggested: graphic images of war
To kill or not to kill?
What would you do if it was your finger on the trigger?
Eight U.S. combat soldiers face the most difficult decision of their lives.
A powerful yet open-minded television documentary, used by West Point US Military Academy as well as Quaker and Mennonite traditional Christian Peace churchs.
- broadcast on PBS and around the world
- Emmy Award Nomination, 2009
- Winner – 5 “Best Doc” Film Festival Awards.
- Sundance Documentary Film Program grant recepient
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82 and 52 minute (classroom) versions available
Beyond the television broadcast …
SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE has been screened at high schools, colleges and universities; from West Point (yes, the US Military Academy!) and various Veterans Administration Hospitals, to civilian peace activist groups, as well as at traditional peace churches (Quakers, Mennonites), and other faith communities (Catholic, Baptists, Buddhists and Jews.)
Our goal: to present an honestly balanced film about a mostly taboo topic: killing in war.
We made it to start discussions and to encourage mental-health:
for soldiers.
for members of the armed services,
for veterans,
for their families
for their communities
for all the rest of us who are fortunate enough to never have gone to war
and for those who question killing as a solution to anything.
We think we accomplished our goal, as people of ALL different values and ideologies have told us how much they appreciate and learned from this film.
We are especially proud of this films use as a PTSD prevention and suicide prevention tool, and strongly urge families of members of the armed services to use this documentary as a way to learn more about the mental wounds soldiers suffer.
– John Brummett, The Morning News
82 and 52 minute (classroom) versions available
Beyond the television broadcast …
SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE has been screened at high schools, colleges and universities; from West Point (yes, the US Military Academy!) and various Veterans Administration Hospitals, to civilian peace activist groups, as well as at traditional peace churches (Quakers, Mennonites), and other faith communities (Catholic, Baptists, Buddhists and Jews.)
Our goal: to present an honestly balanced film about a mostly taboo topic: killing in war.
We made it to start discussions and to encourage mental-health:
for soldiers.
for members of the armed services,
for veterans,
for their families
for their communities
for all the rest of us who are fortunate enough to never have gone to war
and for those who question killing as a solution to anything.
We think we accomplished our goal, as people of ALL different values and ideologies have told us how much they appreciate and learned from this film.
We are especially proud of this films use as a PTSD prevention and suicide prevention tool, and strongly urge families of members of the armed services to use this documentary as a way to learn more about the mental wounds soldiers suffer.
