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The War Tapes, an independent Iraq documentary filmed by three Guardsmen, is expected out on DVD beginning next year. It has screened in a limited number of US theaters after winning the Tribeca Film Festival's, Best International Documentary.

"[Director Deborah] Scranton edited over 900 hours of footage in Iraq and over 200 hours of footage back home — some of it filmed in the Soldiers’ absence and some capturing their return and reintegration — into a 94-minute film that won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best International Documentary competition.

The film’s main characters are an interesting batch: Moriarti, a patriot so upset by 9/11 that he cannot wait to get to Iraq; Pink, a quietly funny man with a penchant for vivid metaphors, who regrets enlisting even before the unit deploys; and Bazzi, a Lebanese-American fluent in Arabic, who reads The Nation and was apparently one of just several in the company who did not vote for the president in the elections that occurred during their deployment."--Military Review, Oct 2006, p 117--

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