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- DirectorGordon Forbes IIIStarsGianni Biasetti Sr.Cade CourtleyJess KingAn Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan. They have no idea that within twelve hours five of them will lie dead in the mountain snow after an intense and deadly battle.
- DirectorTim HetheringtonSebastian JungerStarsThe Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat TeamJuan 'Doc RestrepoDan KearneyA year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
- DirectorSebastian JungerStarsLaMonta CaldwellMiguel CortezStephen GillespieKorengal picks up where Restrepo (2010) left off--with the same men, in the same valley, with the same commanders--but presents a very different look at the experience of war.
- DirectorFrancis Gay'11 Days and a Wake Up' is a real true life documentary about The Chosen Few and The Battle of Wanat where 9 soldiers were Killed in Action and 27 others seriously wounded. Chosen Company is part of the US Army's 173rd Air borne, 503rd Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Fort Benning Georgia. With only 11 days left in their 15 month combat deployment, Chosen Company was ordered by the head of Army in a Main Effort Mission, the highest priority in War, to relocate their Combat Outpost Bella and move 4 miles South to the city of Wanat and establish COP Kahler, named after their recently KIA platoon leader Matthew Kahler. Chosen Company was surrounded and attacked by over 200+ Taliban Insurgents in an 8 hr Firefight for their lives. The US Army and the Department of Defense has categorized The Battle of Wanat as the single deadliest, bloodiest and largest loss of life battle in the 15 year long War on Terror. The story of The Chosen Few and The Battle of Wanat is now taught in all military colleges throughout the US including West Point. A Battalion of 3 Medal of Honor recipients, 2 DSC's, several Silver and Bronze Stars awards of Valor. This is their story and their battle narrated by the soldiers themselves including some of the Gold Star Fathers and Mothers of 9 sons, Heroes, who all gave the ultimate sacrifice. 9 KIA 27 Wounded The Chosen Few The Battle of Wanat 11 Days and a Wake Up
- DirectorDavid SalzbergChristian TureaudStarsFrank AdamskiOfren ArrechagaEd BankstonArmed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.
- DirectorDan KraussStarsAdam WinfieldChristopher WinfieldEmma WinfieldThis provocative, bold, and deeply moving documentary profiles Adam Winfield, a soldier-turned-whistleblower who returns from the battlefield to expose shocking war crimes that the U.S. Army will do anything to cover up.
- DirectorMiles LagozeCreated out of war footage taken by combat camera for the Marine Corps.
- DirectorAnthony WonkeStarsRobert GatesStanley McChrystalMike MullenOn February 13, 2010, American-led coalition forces launched the biggest military operation since the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Their target was the town of Marjah, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. There, the Marines had four tasks: remove the Taliban, hold all ground seized, build infrastructure and governance, and transfer control to Afghan security forces. In this powerful account, award-winning journalist Ben Anderson tells the story of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, and its commanding officer, Captain Ryan Sparks. At the battle's outset, Sparks and the 272 men of Bravo are flown 12 miles and dropped into the center of Marjah, where the Taliban lie in wait. For the young Marines, their first task begins. Embedded with Bravo Company, Anderson provides an intimate and sobering look at the realities of counterinsurgency warfare.
- DirectorDavid SalzbergChristian TureaudStarsChris AbramoNaser AhmadiTerry BestArmy Aviators say they fly "above the best" see the lengths these heroes will go to, to protect the soldiers on the ground, and each other during intense combat in the most dangerous places on Earth.
- StarsMark FallonJames LaPortaMichel ParadisThis unflinching series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from Al Qaeda's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad.
- DirectorJanus MetzDanish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.
- DirectorCarol DysingerCamp Victory, Afghanistan is the true story of the American Exit Strategy. Using 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three years, the film follows a battle-tested Afghan General and the steady stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to train the men of his newly formed battalion. It is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military-- but it is also a story about friendship and the unlikely bonds that form across cultural, political and social barriers.
- DirectorJamie RobertsStarsOari Salahuddin AyubiSofia Flesch BaldinJoe BidenFeatures never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of Afghan citizens after the Taliban seized the city.
- DirectorTony LongStarsJason AmerineErik ThompsonMatthew Scott WilcoxRe-enacts some of the decisive battles in the the early years of the war in Afganistan (2001-2004) that drove the Taliban from power.
- DirectorMatthew WortmanStarsRufus JonesA National Geographic documentary about the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi (War House) located in Northern Afghanistan, from Novermber 26, 2001 to December 1, 2001.
- DirectorMarc TileyStarsRufus JonesJay LanceJason NewellDetailing the March 2002 battle of Takur Ghar in southeastern Afghanistan, when a group of US Special Forces came under attack from Al Qaeda fighters while trying to secure a remote mountain-top observation point, leading to an ill-fated and dramatic rescue mission. Seven soldiers lost their lives in what is considered one of the bloodiest battles for U.S. forces in the Afghan war. These dramatic events are shown through key first-hand accounts, reconstructed drama, advanced CGI and archive footage.
- DirectorNed ParkerStarsKumud PantRoss DonnellyHelen JohnstonKidnapped aid workers in Afghanistan present a difficult rescue mission for U.S. Navy SEALs and Britain's Special Air Service.
- StarsRoss KempIn the summer of 2007 Ross joins his father's old regiment, 1 Royal Anglian and, for the first time, heads to Afghanistan. Ross is immediately embedded with frontline troops where for weeks at a time he lives a soldier's life as they fight a fanatical and determined enemy. Off the battlefield he tells the stories of those who risk their lives fighting the Taliban, stories of soldiers who have lost friends in battle and the impact that a loss has on relatives back home. Told the only way it can be done, by living with the guys on the "Frontline", keep up the good work Ross.
- StarsRoss KempRoss Kemp travels back to Afghanistan following his original BAFTA award winning series Ross Kemp in Afghanistan. This time he follows 5 SCOTS in and around Taliban hot spots in the baking heat and finds out what has changed following his original series.
- StarsJared ShawAfghanistan 2002: A quick reaction force of U.S. Army Rangers heads into the snowy mountains of Afghanistan to rescue a missing Navy SEAL. Things quickly go awry when enemy fighters bombard them and multiple teammates are killed.