SUN SEP 22, 2024 4:00 PM BASIC TRAINING $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | World Premiere of New Restoration! Co-presented by ‘This is Not a Fiction’ ‘Frederick Wiseman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ Add to Cart
ABOUT THE FILM: BASIC TRAINING follows a company of draftees and enlisted men through the nine weeks of the basic training cycle. The varieties of training techniques used by the army in converting civilians to soldiers are illustrated in scenes of drills, M-16 and bayonet use, a gas chamber, mines, night crawls, an infiltration course and the many forms of ideological training familiar to millions of men and women who have served in the armed forces. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Zipporah Films COUNTRY: USA