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Baghdad ER

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John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture 01/17/2018
Our obligation is to think past what happened to why, to make distinctions and connections and a difference in the atrocious world. Go to Full Review
Robert P. Laurence San Diego Union-Tribune 03/13/2018
4/4
You need to see it. When it's over, you'll not only have a clearer picture of the price of war, you'll also admire both the men and women who are fighting in Iraq and the doctors and nurses of Baghdad's 86th Combat Support Hospital. Go to Full Review
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11/03/2017 Gripping Peek Into Soldier's Of War In The ER.. Hit By IED's Ect.. Verey Graphic .. At Times Hart felt Young Men Die Right Their on the table .. It Is A SAD Count Of A Haunting Reality.. This was in 06 Wish They Had an Updated version Like Where are they Now ?? See more 07/07/2011 Fantastic! I hate the fact that this subject is even occuring for a documentary to be made, but this was right up my alley. I could watch hours and hours of this type of documentary. See more 12/05/2010 A must see movie... Bring our soldiers home.. See more 11/26/2009 This documentary follows the emergency room of the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Baghdad in 2005. It takes it as a series of vignettes of trauma cases that enter the CSH, a mix of traumas of U.S. military, Iraqi security and Iraqi civilians. As a documentary, it keeps a very narrow focus on the trauma department. As such, it is graphic and raw in its depiction of the effects of combat. It does some introspection, with the main point that the members of the ER don't see anything changing (likely because they are too far removed). But the narrowness of their work make it not possible to see anything else. (and they properly stay in their lane, even when pushed by the documentary makers) While this is the documentary that got awards, I like the NOVA episode Life and Death in the War Zone, which followed the 10th CSH immediately following the invasion in 2003. considerably better. While Trauma and operating rooms are flashier and more intense, "Life and Death" covers the hospital as a whole, starting with preparing for deployment and covering the activities of the whole of the hospital, which includes interactions with the outside world (i.e. other then Americans) while "Baghdad ER" is looking at war through a soda straw. See more 07/17/2008 very good doc con the medical soldiers in combat See more 05/04/2008 For someone who experienced or wittnessed everything they showed and talked about and somehow got out of there in one piece, this was an emotional 64 minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Director
Jon Alpert