Thought I would send out a heads up.

 

Tonight at 9:00 PM on Nat Geo. It is supposed to be an excellent film.

 

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/restrepo-afghan-outpost-4808/Overview

on it.... everyone on this board should see this.

done. Thank you!

Will do. Thanks.

cool Thanks

i hope i have this channel.

 

 

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Damn i dont!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up!

If anyone is interested, this documentary is on tonight at 2100.

 

I believe I heard it won an award at Cannes. Not that that is necessarily a good thing these days.

 

Thanks moderator for moving this. Sorry about that.

*merged njpilot's thread about the same thing.

 

I attended a private showing for this a few months ago. Quite powerful.

*merged njpilot's thread about the same thing.

 

I attended a private showing for this a few months ago. Quite powerful.

 

 

Thanks Ben, sorry about that. Just got hole and wanted to get it posted so people would see it in time. Took a quick look and missed this thread.

Its all good

 

Check out a 14 minute video by the guys who made Restrepo about SSG Giunta's heroics that were occurring at the same time as they were doing their filming (includes an interview with SSG Giunta). And yes, it is the video on the main page:

http://restrepothemovie.com/ (possibly NSFW with some language)

Its all good

 

Check out a 14 minute video by the guys who made Restrepo about SSG Giunta's heroics that were occurring at the same time as they were doing their filming (includes an interview with SSG Giunta). And yes, it is the video on the main page:

http://restrepothemovie.com/ (possibly NSFW with some language)

 

Ben all I can say is wow. So very humble. He personifies what make the American fighting man the best in the world. I must admit I shed a couple of tears watching it thinking about lost shipmates.

Very good show, watched it Saturday, on demand

Very moving

Thanks for the reminder. DVR set.

I'm watchin dis yo

That was a really eye opening film about what our troops are dealing with day to day. It really brought it down to the human level, which is something you don't see to often. Everyone should watch this.

Thanks for posting this. My cousin is deployed in Afghanistan now, so it gave me a good look at what he might be going through. He's pretty much in the same situation - at a fwd operating post, working with the locals.

Just watched this, Amazing and makes you proud to be an American.

Very moving and powerful. Nice to see a documentary that is purely that, and not political. My cousin was in a situation exactly like that, and really makes me appreciate what he did over there that much more.

 

PS - Maks are you able to add that smiley to the forum?

Where can i see the complete documentary? I dont have the channel in my cable package!!!

I couldn't watch the whole thing.........

I watched it. I found it interesting, humbling, frightening, frustrating, etc. It is life after all. I think the thing that pissed me off the most was the guy who only wanted money for his friggin cow. Why a-hole? So you can go buy guns and blow up our guys? I also appeared as though the weekly "sit down" with the locals accomplished exactly NOTHING.

Where can i see the complete documentary? I dont have the channel in my cable package!!!

 

You can buy the DVD/Bluray here or on Amazon.

 

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/restrepo-afghan-outpost-4808/Overview

 

I would also recomend Junger's book "War" It filled in a lot of details that the film didn't cover. Also I thought the film was toned down from what was covered in the book. For example, in the the movie it showed the guys wrestling. In the book it says that they used to really beat the **** out of each other just for entertainment. The "cow incident" in the book was funny as ****. Also in the book it had a lot of deatiled decription of the Apache's and the A10's really lighing up the enemy. I was disapointed that wasn't shown in the film.

Amazing documentary.

Amazing documentary.

 

Its on Fast pass !!!!! watch it while you can online for free!!