My Lai (2010)

What drove a company of American soldiers ordinary young men from around the country to commit the worst atrocity in American military history Were they just following orders as some later declared Or did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred American Experience focuses on the 1968 My Lai massacre its subsequent coverup and the heroic efforts of the soldiers who broke ranks to try to halt the atrocities and then bring them to light