The screening on Monday the 2nd of November was followed by a Q&A with director J. M. Harper and producer Sam Bisbee. Hosted by documentary producer Lizzie Gillett.
Focusing on the first Black special ops team in the Vietnam War, Soul Patrol uncovers a hidden chapter of American military history.
With unprecedented access to this group of African-American veterans, director J.M. Harper reconstructs their journey with an immediacy rarely seen in Vietnam War storytelling, using raw Super 8 footage, photographs and audio recordings from their personal archives.
The surviving members reunite in a hotel that becomes a surreal liminal space, where memory, brotherhood and unresolved trauma collide. As the men reflect on their experiences, the film interrogates the contradictions of fighting for freedom abroad while facing racism and inequality at home. Soul Patrol is not just a war story, but a reckoning – an intimate portrait of survival, memory, and the enduring cost of war on those asked to fight it.
The screening on Monday the 2nd of November was followed by a Q&A with director J. M. Harper and producer Sam Bisbee. Hosted by documentary producer Lizzie Gillett.