Year at Danger (2007)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker documents his own deployment to Iraq during the war. The film uses his personal footage to show his experiences as a soldier and husband overseas.

personalobservationalintimaterawcontemplativegroundedfirst-persondocumentary-style

What happens

Year at Danger is a 2007 independent documentary film. Nine days after his marriage, Steve Metze found out that he was being deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Metze, a West Point graduate, Desert Storm veteran, and documentary filmmaker, decided to pack a camera and document his year in Iraq. The film consists of footage shot by Metze during his deployment to Iraq and was edited by Don Swaynos. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the 2008 DeadCENTER Film Festival and was an Official Selection of the 2007 Austin Film Festival and the 2008 GI Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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