Deep in eastern Afghanistan lies the rugged Korengal Valley, an epicenter of the current conflict and one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military.
To make their thrilling documentary, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger embedded with the soldiers as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost in the Korengal called Restrepo after a platoon medic who was killed in action.
Hetherington and Junger avoid all outside commentary and political context in order to present war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words – the backbreaking labor, the deadly firefights, the boredom, the camaraderie.
When: Friday, Aug. 6. Click here for screening times
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