The Silence is a 1975 made-for-TV movie about James Pelosi, a West Point cadet who was charged in 1971 with cheating on an exam.
During his junior year at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Cadet Pelosi was accused of cheating on an exam.
Although the officers’ review board's committee exonerated him, his fellow cadets imposed "The Silence" anyway.
Rather, it depicts his version of the incident and the systematic ostracism that followed his decision not to resign from the academy.
[1] Pelosi went on to serve in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in Army's Berlin Brigade's Special Troops Unit, he received a medal for a May 17, 1975, incident for heroism in rescuing wounded civilians in a nonmilitary traffic accident.