The Hornet's Nest (2014)

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

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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