Monday, July 16, 2007

The War Tapes - This is a must see war documentary about Iraq and the American soldiers that go there


"Remarkable. Very moving. Very real."
- Mark Bowden, Author of Black Hawk Down

The War Tapes, a powerfully distressing film in which director Deborah Scranton weaves together first-person video footage shot by three National Guardsmen in Iraq in 2004, roughly a year after the invasion began, gives us a literal soldier's-eye view of the current U.S. military nightmare: desolate rides through Baghdad and Fallujah, accompanied by the occasional explosion and always -- always -- the fear that the next IED will be the one that hits you. The soldiers speak movingly of that anxiety. It's almost intrinsic to the nature of movies that we begin to wait for that horrific event, the awful ''climax'' to the soldiers' dread.

Trailer:
http://thewartapes.com/trailer/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much. I just wanted to clarify that in fact 21 soldiers filmed for the project, even though in the film itself you only get to meet 3 of them.

Deborah Scranton
Director
THE WAR TAPES