My Lai

"Looks at the 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, asking what drove a company of ordinary young American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history."@en
"Focuses on the 1968 My Lai massacre, through interviews with surviving US soldiers and Vietnamese villagers. Asks what drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history. Features archival material."
"In an exploration of the morality of actions taken in the name of war, American experience directs its lens to the 1968 My Lai massacre and asks what drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they "just following orders" or, did they crumble under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred?"
""What drove a company of American soldiers - ordinary young men from around the country - to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? On the morning of 16 March, 1968, 140 young soldiers of Charlie Company entered the village of My Lai, in central Vietnam. By the end of the day, they had shot and killed between 300 and 507 unarmed and unresisting men, women and children, none of them apparently members of the enemy forces." -- Container."