Restrepo (2010)
- Directed by
- Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 366 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows a platoon of U.S. soldiers stationed at a remote outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. It shows their daily routines, firefights, and the emotional toll of combat over the course of a year.
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What happens
Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger. It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. The Second Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign, PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo, who was a Colombian-born naturalized U.S. citizen. The directors stated that the film is not a war advocacy documentary, they simply "wanted to capture the reality of the soldiers." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Outpost (2019)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.