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| This Is War: Memories of Iraq | 
 enlarge | Director: Gary Mortensen
Studio: IMD Films
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 21533
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Original Recording Remastered, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 82
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 07-024
UPC: 827421001078
EAN: 0827421001078
ASIN: B0000B0JJ5
Release Date: December 11, 2007
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Condition: Brand New! Never opened, Direct from distributor.
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Among the many documentaries about America's involvement in the Iraq War, This Is War is one of the most personal. A video diary about the experiences of an Oregon National Guard battalion sent to Iraq for a year in 2004, This Is War is divided into short chapters that bring home multiple aspects of a difficult and dangerous mission. Beginning with the troops emotionally preparing for a half-year's combat training and gradually acclimating to Iraq's tremendous heat, the film traces a gradual awareness of day-to-day realities and responsibilities where the enemy is often unseen. While the soldiers know the predictability of their own movements make them constantly subject to attack, there is little they can do about it, and when assaults come they watch and adapt as their teammates die. Told anecdotally, this video collage offers many specifics about events most of us only know through general knowledge about the war's progress. While Brian De Palma's Redacted was a protest against official control of information coming out of the Iraq War--told from the point-of-view of a faux video diary--This Is War is the real thing, and is a richer experience for its marriage of the Guardsmen's cynical yet workaday ethic and muted emotions about the horrors and treachery that surround them. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
"This is War" tells the story of what it means to be in combat in Iraq through the eyes of the soldiers who were there. This documentary follows nine National Guard soldiers from Oregon who ended up in some of the heaviest fighting of the war. Most of the photographs and footage were taken from the cameras of the soldiers themselves giving the viewer rare access to the front lines in places such as Fallujah Najaf and the desolate IED infested roads outside of Baghdad. Joking while a sniper shoots at them or griping about "higher command's" decision- making processes these soldiers come across as distinctly American. Of the nine soldiers covered in the documentary two are severely injured in combat and several more are wounded in action. Through it all they retain their bond to each other. Powerful and hard hitting this film puts the war into a context that watching the evening news simply can't do. It's honest brutal funny and always engaging. This is War.System Requirements:Running Time: 82 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WAR/DOCUMENTARY UPC: 827421001078 Manufacturer No: 07-024
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 Good realistic view of war August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a returned Iraq war vet I can tell you this is a good glimpse of what war is like. A good addition to any vets library.
 Powerful documentary July 21, 2008
This is a well done documentary showing the impact this war can have on the men and women who fight. It clearly documents the transformation of the people interviewed. It begins with excited naive national guard soldiers and walks us through their ordeal pulling us into the frustration, exhaustion, chaos and destruction that transforms these people into veterans, some haunted, some survivors, some stronger, some not, all forever changed. I highly recommend this piece to give those of us stateside a look at what this war is truly like through the eyes of the soldiers who fight it on the front lines.
Gritty moving footage of combat life July 15, 2008
This was the best combat movie I have seen coming out of Iraq. Although I do not support this war, I do support our soldiers and Guardsmen who are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This movie shows an honest portrait, in bite size chapters, of the Guardsmen from the start of their deployment, through a year of anxious vigilance, violent battles, camaraderie and boredom, and the return home. It was moving and hard to take at times but all Americans should be watching movies like this. We owe it to the men and women who are fighting in our names, to be informed about what they are facing.
Nice Film! May 16, 2008
I saw this today at the G.I. Film Festival in Washington D.C. As a veteran of OIF, I was VERY impressed with it.
It is not an anti-war film, per se, nor is it overly patriotic -- it just tells the soldier's story.
What helps it along is that the footage in the film is not staged - it's just *home movies* expertly spliced together by the director, Gary Mortensen.
I would recommend this film be seen by just any American -- but esp. those who have served in Iraq and by their family members.
A video gem April 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just finished watching this. Excellent. Its' a-political but if you hate the war, you probably won't like it because this shows how are National Guardsmen, ones who really serve their country and sacrifice as they usually leave better paying jobs and family to deploy, serving proudly and readily and facing real threats and ultimately loss.
These soldiers are a credit to the Army and to the Oregon National Guard. They serve with honor and grit and the story they tell is profoundly moving as real and not contemporary "feelings" and complaining and whatnot. This documentary covers some of the toughest periods to serve in Iraq, mid 2004 thru 2005.
I highly recommend this video. I wish the "where are they now" at the end could have been more inclusive, but maybe the ones that were left out, decided not to participate. It's still a job well done.
I'm an Army vet and have friends serving in Iraq now and this film touched me as I hoped it would.
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