War Feels Like War (2004)

Directed by

Esteban Uyarra

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

59 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary film follows five journalists who covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq without military protection. It shows how these reporters traveled behind coalition forces to document war's impact on Iraqi civilians.

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What happens

War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. Made for BBC Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark), it was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. The film "portrays journalists who covered the war in Iraq without the cover of helmets, bullet-proof vests, or the American military." For three months, in Iraq, Spanish filmmaker Esteban Uyarra followed Jacek Czarnecki, Bengt Kristiansen, Jan Kruse, P.J. O'Rourke, and Stephanie Sinclair, five reporters and photographers, from Denmark, Norway, Poland, and the United States. These journalists circumvented military media control to get access to a different perspective on the Iraq War. As the Coalition of the willing swept into Iraq, some journalists in Kuwait decided to travel in their wake, risking their lives to discover the impact of war on civilians. The journalists include author P. J. O'Rourke, who was working for ABC Radio, as well as reporters and photographers for news operations ranging from Poland's Radio Zet to Stephanie Sinclair, a photographer for the Chicago Tribune. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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