Sebastian Junger
James Brabazon
Nick Quested
James Brabazon
Sebastian Junger
Tim Hetherington
Geeta Gandbhir
Maya Mumma
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2013
United States
78 min
Color
Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was always searching for the humanity within armed conflict, as evidenced in his award-winning body of work. When he and author and documentarian Sebastian Junger spent a year filming a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan in their Academy Award–nominated film Restrepo, they weren’t… » simply looking for action; they also chose to focus on the many small moments that make war human. Hetherington’s footage of time he spent with rebel forces during Liberia’s civil war and in Libya prior to his tragic death from a mortar blast in 2011 conveys a rare sense of intimacy that contrasts sharply with the violence around him…
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