Monday, December 28, 2015

Netflix Nugget - Week of December 28th

We have a Double Feature to close out 2015 for the Netflix Nugget this week.  They both are a linked set of Documentaries following a platoon on their tour in Afghanistan.  Both have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival showing what a tour overseas and hunting down the Taliban is really like.

RESTREPO
Director:  Tim Hetherington, Sebastion Junger
Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc' Restrepo, Dan Kearney
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Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.















KORENGAL
Director: Sebastion Junger
Stars: LaMonta Caldwell, Miquel Cortez, Stephen Gillespie
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Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.
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3 comments:

  1. ValleyWogDecember 28, 2015 at 5:11 PM

    This is one of the best war documentaries that I have ever seen. An absolute must see.

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  2. AaronDecember 28, 2015 at 5:42 PM

    I agree. It shows a part of being overseas and in war that most people don't really understand.

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  3. peggs82December 29, 2015 at 8:40 PM

    The sequel Korengal is also very good.

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