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

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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