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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:55 am Post subject: A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS - PBS Feb22 / View On-Line Feb 25 |
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A COMPANY OF SOLDIERS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/press/2308.html
Tuesday, February 22, at 9pm, 90 minutes
| Quote: | American troops in Iraq—battling a deadly insurgency—face the risk of death or serious injury every day. In November 2004, a FRONTLINE team embedded itself with the soldiers of the 8th Cavalry's Dog Company in South Baghdad, powerfully documenting a controversial war through the eyes of the men and women fighting it.
In "A Company of Soldiers," airing Tuesday, February 22, at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE goes beyond the daily headlines from the war in Iraq to document the day-to-day realities of a life-and-death military mission that also includes rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, promoting its economic development, and building positive relations with its people.
"These men and women in Dog Company grasp the realities of their position and the complexity of the problems they face. And they're a very tough group," says director Tom Roberts. "This is not an army hiding timidly behind their fortifications. They fight hard on the streets."
"It's kind of weird because you don't really think about people... actually trying to kill you, and... I mean, you see a guy and he's running away and he has an RPG and you just, it sounds kind of mean or kind of savage, I guess, you just want to kill him because if you don't kill him, he's going to kill you," says Private Josue Reyes. "You just, you just lose everything, or... just get numb."
Filming began three days after the Fallujah campaign was launched in November 2004. There was a surge in violence as an insurgent group, thought to have come from Ramadi, launched a series of ambushes and attacks in Dog Company's sector.
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A promo clip can be viewed online at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/2308.html
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| Thanks for the heads-up Kate...I'll post on Media Events. |
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kate
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they did an excellent job with this, very powerful to watch, no holds barred, tough to watch when they lost one of their own
for those that missed it, they will be putting it on-line to view,
starting Friday Feb 25, at 8pm eastern
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/
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