FRONTLINE tonight - Bad Voodoo's War

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

FRONTLINE presents
BAD VOODOO'S WAR
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS

"Here we are. It's about 2:30 in the morning on the 2nd of October. We have been on the road for a while. ... Wasn't too excited to get this change of mission. The stretch of road between Anaconda and Speicher, known as IED Alley, it's probably one of the worst stretches of road in theater."
-Sfc. Toby Nunn, during his second Iraq deployment, to his personal mini-DV camera

FRONTLINE goes to war in Iraq with a band of California-based National Guard soldiers who call themselves the "Bad Voodoo Platoon" to tell their very personal story in Bad Voodoo's War, airing Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET (check local listings). To record their war, from private reflections to real-time footage of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on the ground, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) creates a "virtual embed," supplying cameras to the soldiers of the Bad Voodoo Platoon and working with them to shape an intimate portrait that reveals the hard grind of their war. Says Scranton: "What compels me is telling a story from the inside out, to crawl inside their world with them to see what it looks like, feels like and smells like. It's really important to give soldiers the chance to press their own record button on this war."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/

[stray cat]

1. Thanks! I haven't heard of it.

[Forkboy]

2. I plan on watching after seeing the ad last week, but I know it'll piss me off.

:mad:

[alfredo]

3. Thank you. It will be shown here in Lexington Ky WKLE April 7.