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The best documentary I've seen in a while is Restrepo (2010) [1,2]. Probably the best insight you can get on a platoon's experience in what is (or rather, was)

• HockeyBiasDotCo 15y ago
  Agreed.
• phil 15y ago
  Restrepo is great. I thought it captured two things very well: what modern war is like from a grunt's perspective, and the disconnect between US officers and the local Afghani leaders they are supposed to be working with. It's also got some amazing handheld footage of firefights. After the third or fourth time the cameraman dives for cover and the people around him begin shooting, you start to think, "hey, this seems like it was pretty dangerous to make." That only makes it sadder that the guy holding the camera was recently killed in Libya while doing more or less the same thing.
• silvestrov 15y ago
  Armadillo is even more real: they put cameras on the soldiers helmets and filmed a real shooting with the Taliban soldiers. You see the Danish soldiers shooting Taliban soldiers, and you see the Danish solders dragging the dead bodies out of the hiding place. They even show a shell shocked Danish soldier after he was hit. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_(film) The film won the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. It created a huge debate in Denmark about the engagement in Afghanistan.
  • silvestrov 15y ago
    Warning: NSFA (not safe for anything). The shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PcvDrYd8-4&t=15m45s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PcvDrYd8-4&t=15m45s The dead taliban scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfke2X6joko&t=3m10s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfke2X6joko&t=3m10s Trailer (switch to HD!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDuRraJbOg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDuRraJbOg
• dropshopsa 15y ago
  Just watched it, amazing!!!!
• dropshopsa 15y ago
  Just watched it, amazing!!!!