Armed only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025)

Original title

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

Directed by

Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

39 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary short follows brothers Brent and Craig Renaud as they film in war zones around the world. It focuses on their experiences together and the death of Brent while reporting.

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What happens

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is a 2025 American documentary short film, directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud. It chronicles the years Craig Renaud and his brother Brent Renaud, who was killed on March 13, 2022, spent covering some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts. It had its world premiere in the Documentary Short Competition at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 9. It was released by HBO Documentary Films on HBO Max on October 21. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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