Inner Life, During Wartime: 'The Kill Team'
A horrified soldier in Afghanistan witnesses atrocities encouraged by his commanding officer in Dan Krauss' feature film, based on his 2013 documentary of the same name.
by Scott Tobias
Oct 24, 2019
3 minutes
Based on his 2013 documentary of the same name, Dan Krauss' follows the case of a 21-year-old Army private in Afghanistan who witnessed war crimes committed by his platoon, but failed to get the Criminal Investigation Division Command (or CID) to look into it, despite his father's help in alerting the right people. The film is a rumination on the moral and systemic failures of the military, which didn't step in promptly to investigate, but it's also about the culture of coercion and
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