Restrepo
- Release Date
- June 25, 2010
- Director
- Tim Hetherington , Sebastian Junger
- Cast
- The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team , Juan 'Doc Restrepo , Dan Kearney , LaMonta Caldwell , Aron Hijar , Misha Pemble-Belkin
- Runtime
- 94
- Main Genre
- Documentary
- Tagline
- Winner – Documentary Grand Jury Prize – 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
- Website
- http://www.restrepothemovie.com/
Summary
To make their bracingly visceral documentary Restrepo, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, award-winning journalists Tim Hetherington (Liberia: An Uncivil War) and Sebastian Junger (the books The Perfect Storm and the upcoming War) embedded with the soldiers of Second Platoon, Battle Company, as they fought to build and maintain a remote 15-man outpost in Afghanistan's rugged Korengal Valley named “Restrepo,” after a platoon medic who was killed in action, which was one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. Hetherington and Junger avoid outside commentary and politics to present the war as it is actually lived by soldiers, through their own eyes and in their own words — their backbreaking labor, deadly firefights, boredom and camaraderie — the terrifying and exhilarating experiences they can never forget.
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