越战期间,美军大量征兵。大批年轻人应征入伍,在新兵营接受“残忍”的训练。“傻瓜”比尔运动神经不发达,常常犯错而连累所有人一起受罚。“小丑”(马修?莫迪恩 Matthew Modine 饰)奉命帮助比尔,但比尔还是老犯错误,连累其他人。大家忍无可忍下打了他一顿,比尔从此变得精神恍惚,在新兵营毕业前夕枪杀教官后吞枪自杀。“小丑”随后分到了军队新闻组。他在采访中看到了当时的同伴们都已经变得麻木、残忍。一次,“小丑”随“牛仔”执行任务时,遭到越共狙击手伏击,“牛仔”亦不幸中弹身亡。众人经过一番搜索,击伤了狙击手。“小丑”发现狙击手竟是一个年轻少女。有人提议留下她挣扎而死,“小丑”在少女“杀了我”的哀求声中,扣下了扳机。
This production of 'Twelve Angry Men', written especially for Studio One, is shorter than the film version and leaves a few twists and turns of plot undeveloped, but it is fifty minutes of class nevertheless. For many years this episode was thought to have been lost. The Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) had only the first 30 minutes of the hour-long program on a kinescope provided by CBS - the only version CBS had. After nearly 30 years of searching, a copy of the complete program was found in 2003 by filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who was working on a documentary about noted defense attorney Robert Leibowitz (Leibowitz reported on the Charles A. Lindbergh baby kidnapping for the NY radio station WHN) and found a copy of the show in the archives maintained by the children of Leibowitz, Robert Leibowitz and Marjorie Leibowitz Finch. Samuel Leibowitz requested and received a commercial-free kinescope copy of "Twelve Angry Men" from CBS shortly after it aired because of his interest in legal issues. The Leibowitz children donated the kinescope to the museum and it had a re-premiere in May 2003.
这部纪录片是青年导演Elizabeth Lo的首部长片,伴随流浪狗橄榄、纳扎尔和卡特尔的脚步,观众得以窥见伊斯坦布尔易被忽略的角落,看到街头边缘人——同为流浪者的叙利亚难民的生活面貌。该片已入围2020届翠贝卡电影节,并由英国电影公司Dogwoof参与发行。