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The War Tapes

Armed with minicams on their gun turrets, helmets, and dashboards, three National Guardsmen capture an unprecedented perspective of the Iraq war in this powerful documentary culled from more than 1,000 hours of footage. Deftly interlaced with harrowing film of ambushes, explosions and severed limbs are the soldiers' complex reactions to the conflict and interviews with the women they left behind.

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Gunner Palace

Get inside the heads of our troops in Iraq via this engrossing portrait. Director Michael Tucker lived with 2/3 Field Artillery ("The Gunners") for two months and captured the humanity of these soldiers, whose barracks in the most volatile section of Baghdad are the ransacked pleasure palace of Uday Hussein. Tucker's footage provided a rare look at the lives of these soldiers, whether they're swimming in Uday's pool or raiding terrorist lairs.

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Baghdad ER

Filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill capture the gruesome realities of the conflict in Iraq -- along with the human sprit's resiliency -- in this unsettling HBO documentary. Recorded over a two-month period in 2005, the video follows the U.S. Army's medical personnel at the 86th Combat Support Hospital (inside-Baghdad's "Green Zone") as they battle tirelessly to save wounded soldiers ... who just keep coming. not for the fainthearted.

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