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The Hornet's Nest (2014)

The Hornet's Nest poster
Directed by
Christian Tureaud, David Salzberg
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A father and son journalist team embed with U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan. What was meant to be a short mission turns into a prolonged firefight in a dangerous valley.

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What happens

The Hornet's Nest is a 2014 American documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed and produced by David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud. The film follows father and son journalists Mike Boettcher and Carlos Boettcher, embedded with a group of United States Army soldiers from 101st Airborne Division sent on a mission into Kunar Province's Barawala Kalay Valley, one of Afghanistan's most hostile valleys. The three-day mission becomes an intense nine days of fighting against the enemy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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