Michael Grigsby, Rebekah Tolley
Great Britain
2012 | 01:17:00

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 Dennis, David and Lamar (three young soldiers recently returned from combat), as they tried to readjuster" to life back home in the heartlands of Texas, after a year on the front!line. Some 40 years after the film’s first release, "I was a soldier" inhaled as "a classic” (Sight & Sound), poignantly echoing the experiences of soldiers 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 so many of those returning from the front line today. A film about war, which creates only loosers, and about men, who lost not only one war.