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Monkie Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 08:22 AM
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moving documentary Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq (watch it online)
i'm reposting this here from GD in the hope it doesnt get "lost" in the chatter.Forgive me for bending "Editorials and Other Articles" to include a documentary one can watch online,and for claiming this is a MUST SEE.

Dutch documentary maker Roel van Broekhoven, inspired by Nina Berman's photo essay Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq,travels to America to visit 3 wounded veterans to tell the story behind the photo's.
It is a extremely intimate portrayal of these soldiers and a damning indictment of this war and the administration that took them there and neglected them afterwards.
What makes it so powerfull is the skill of the cameraman and the way the interviewer takes backstage and doesnt editorialise.
There is no blood and gore,no slick message or tv personalities.
watch it if you haven't yet.

link to watch the documentary online:
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/sb.20041003.rm
(realplayer required,1.50 minute intro in dutch rest is english)
ps. made with dutch taxpayers money,free to watch online,thanks to the dutch public broadcaster www.vpro.nl

Nina Berman's photo essay Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq
www.purpleheartsbook.com
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