Created by some of the most effective, most respected organizations on the issues related to this series, these resources can help guide discussions at your screening event.
Post Screening Discussion Guide
The Unitarian Universalist Church uses this Discussion Guide to start audience conversations around the question, Who Pays the Price for the Iraq War?
Tomorrow's leaders need to understand the power of the story. If you're a high school or college leader or educator, here are materials, created by education experts that untap the series video's dialogue potential in classroom discussions and assignments.
Soldiers of Conscience, Grades 10-12 Curricula
For teachers of U.S. History, Civics, Current Events, and English, this POV curricula is designed to be used with the film Soldiers of Conscience. Teachers can use this lesson plan to help students consider opposing arguments on this issue and then develop and defend their own positions.
Multimedia related to this video and related series.
Winter Soldier
A national multimedia campaign featuring veterans as they describe their experiences in fighting the war in Iraq. This campaign is being supported by several veteran and peace organizations across the country.
From some of the nation's most respected research and advocacy organizations, on the issues related to this video and related series.
2008 Study from the Rand Corporation
Executive Summary of the Rand Corporation Report, "Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery." The study finds that nearly 20 percent of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post traumatic stress, severe depression, and traumatic brain injury.
Article: New England Journal of Medicine
A study published in 2008 in the New England Journal of Medicine finding that large numbers of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its symptoms.
Courage to Resist
A web hub that supports the efforts of public GI resisters by providing them with political, emotional, and material support as they voice their dissent of the U.S. government's current policies in Iraq.
The Cost of the War
A report from the National Priorities Project, an organization that clarifies and analyzes federal data so that concerned citizens can know how their tax dollars are spent.
Links to organizations and more publications on issues related to this video and related series.
Winning the Right War
An article by The Brookings Institute's Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy, Phillip Gordon, assessing the policy decisions made by the Bush administration regarding the war in Iraq.
