The best documentary I've seen in a while is Restrepo (2010) [1,2].
Probably the best insight you can get on a platoon's experience in what is (or rather, was) probably the most contested area in Afghanistan.
Probably the best insight you can get on a platoon's experience in what is (or rather, was) probably the most contested area in Afghanistan.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_(film) The film won the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. It created a huge debate in Denmark about the engagement in Afghanistan.
The shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PcvDrYd8-4&t=15m45s
The dead taliban scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfke2X6joko&t=3m10s
Trailer (switch to HD!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDuRraJbOg
It's also got some amazing handheld footage of firefights. After the third or fourth time the cameraman dives for cover and the people around him begin shooting, you start to think, "hey, this seems like it was pretty dangerous to make." That only makes it sadder that the guy holding the camera was recently killed in Libya while doing more or less the same thing.