In this documentary join Robert King–renowned photojournalist and videographer– as he films from the frontlines with the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, the country’s largest city. War-zone war ensues and is captured on video. As a result of the non-stop gunfire, a massive fire sweeps through destroying a historic covered market and a World Heritage site known as old Souk of Aleppo.
The American government relies more and more often on robots to do their fighting. Starting with Operation Desert Storm, many wars are fought from a distance. The casualties are real – but it plays like a video game to the soldiers pushing the buttons.
On the battlefields of Iraq, Sgt. Samuel Tapia of the United States Army hit a roadside bomb. The explosion burned over 50% of his entire body. He lost his left fingers but gained a second chance.
Josephy Kony has now been made famous. While many have qualms with the organization that produced “Kony 2012,” or the footage used in the documentary, nobody contests to Kony’s guilt. SOLDIER CHILD is an excellent documentary that goes into a lot more depth about the whole issue. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
The constant war in Israel/Palestine breaks my heart. I have my own opinions, but rather than take sides and get caught up in a debate that seems to have no end in sight: I will take this opportunity to present a documentary that has one goal in mind: PEACE. Peace that does not threaten the existence of either party.
Sierra Leone sits in Western Africa. It is a nation caught between crushing poverty and wealth beyond the imagination of most people on earth. Diamonds are ripe in the land and harvested by the Western World. In 1991, a civil war broke out. Enough was enough.
The strike that killed Osama bin Laden provided a glimpse of the vast and often secret campaign by US special forces and troops to kill thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. They call it ‘precision targeting’; their critics say it’s assassination. Dispatches investigates.
For the first time ever, Australia’s most secretive soldiers have invited a TV crew to document them in Afghanistan.
An unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American Soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given full access to all operations of the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne, and lived with the unit 24/7.
Award-winning filmmaker Vaughan Smith spent 10 days with a US Medevac helicopter unit in Afghanistan.
Panorama follows Lima Company, a unit of the US Marines, as they dodge bombs in Afghanistan and struggle to reclaim the same territory the British previously occupied.
In A Very British Hero, Christina Schmid – the widow of army bomb disposal expert Oz Schmid – reveals how the Army is failing in its duty of care to this tiny elite band of soldiers who are at the very forefront of the war in Afghanistan.
Medical personnel more accustomed to treating patients than handling weapons prepare to head to Iraq.
Shot in cinema-vérité style, this feature documentary immerses the viewer in the sights and sounds of the world’s largest field hospital, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan.
A powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq talk openly about their loved ones and their grief. Epic in scale and spanning seven years of war, this landmark three-hour film gives a rare insight into the personal impact and legacy of this loss.
This documentary follows the journey of two injured soldiers: 19-year-old Ranger Andy Allen and 24-year-old Lance Corporal Tom Neathway. Both have severe injuries, but surviving them is just the beginning.
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