Soul Patrol

Soul Patrol uncovers a hidden chapter of American military history: the Vietnam War’s first Black special ops team, an elite unit operating deep behind enemy lines. With unprecedented access to this once-secretive group of African-American veterans, director J. M. Harper reconstructs their journey using raw Super 8 footage, photographs, and audio recordings from their personal archives.

Opening on the war’s 50th anniversary, the film follows the surviving members as they reunite in a hotel, where memory, brotherhood, and unresolved trauma collide. As the men reflect on their experiences, the film examines the contradictions of fighting for freedom abroad while facing inequality at home. Soul Patrol is an intimate portrait of survival, memory, and the enduring cost of war on those asked to fight it.