Frederick Wiseman’s fine black-and-white documentary (1971, 89 min.) follows a group of army draftees through eight weeks of basic training at Fort Polk, Kentucky, in the summer of 1970. It’s notable ...

From Green Berets to the S-1 clerk and everyone in between, every soldier has something in common with each other: they’ve all started their military careers at the U.S. Army’s Basic Combat Training.