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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0094922550958
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Rumur Releasing
Manufacturer: Rumur Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rumur Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 36236
Studio: Rumur Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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In 2004 filmmakers Ian Olds and Garrett Scott set out to create a truthful document of the American soldier s experience in Iraq by spending six weeks with the 82nd Airborne at their post in Falluja where their mission is to improve relations with the locals while maintaining order in the city. Unbeknownst to any of them the city would become the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the war mere weeks after filming was completed. Virtually living with the small platoon and accompanying them on patrols that see gunfire and explosions Olds and Scott elicit some surprising opinions from their soldiers. Despite an urging from Squad Leader Sergeant Chris Corcione a former guitar player in a North Carolina death metal band to refrain from making any anti-Bush administration comments on camera several soldiers express doubt in their reasons for being there and lack of faith in the President s motives for sending them. Telling comments from residents of the city also serve as eerie foreshadowing of the violence that would eventually follow. Without taking any clear position OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND also shows how the military provides a way out for young people with no other options though the end result may often be a different kind of purgatory.System Requirements:Running Time: 180 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 094922550958 Manufacturer No: RUMDV1
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Many Americans drive around with "Support Our Troops" stickers affixed to their vehicles, and if Occupation: Dreamland is any indication, the men and women who are serving their country in Iraq could certainly use it. Filmed in early 2004, director-editor Ian Olds' documentary (for which he was given full access by the U.S. authorities) follows a group of soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division stationed in al-Falluja (also known as Falloujah), Iraq's "city of mosques," where their mission is to maintain the peace and root out insurgents, but their goal is simply to survive their tours of duty and go home. Many of these young men, a lot of them poor and under-educated, joined the military because they lacked viable career or life alternatives; once stationed in Iraq, they clearly wonder why they are there ("What exactly are we protecting?" asks one. "I don't know"). Their daily lives, at least as depicted rather matter-of-factly by Olds, seem to consist of stretches of drudgery punctuated by occasional outbursts of gunfire and dangerous activity, along with meetings in which officers try to persuade them to re-enlist once their contracts expire. Although there are snipers and bombers around, we don't witness any casualties (filming was completed before the Marines laid bloody siege to al-Falluja in April of that same year). Instead, what we see is an uneasy co-existence between locals who don't want them there ("America can go to the moon and make nuclear rockets," says one Iraqi, "but it can't make the people") and soldiers who are duty-bound to fulfill their missions and understand why they are mistrusted, but have little sympathy for those they are supposed to help ("I hate these people," mutters one). They may call their base of operations "Dreamland" (it's actually an abandoned Ba'athist retreat), but for most of these guys, "nightmare" might be more appropriate. --Sam Graham
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This film really shows the average experiences of the infantry in Iraq. I am a Soldier with 2 tours in Iraq and there is no other documentary that covers the war that I can relate to like this. It follows a squad from the 82nd Airborne on their day to day lives pulling missions in Fallujah. It really gives you a feel what it is like to deal with the Iraqis and the soldier's feelings on it. From combat missions to reenlistment briefings this film puts you in the lower enlisted and junior NCO's ... Read More
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I felt like I was in Iraq after watching this. It is the most realistic I have seen on being there. I highly recommend it. It really puts you on the ground over there, and gives you an idea of what it is like for our troops. I wish every American could see it.
Rating:  -
Hollywood just isn't making movies right now. In a pile of DVD "screeners", I stumbled upon a plain white DVD entitled "Occupation: Dreamland". I had no idea it was about Iraq or Fallujah or anything like that. It sounded like a Discovery Channel Special on Nellis Air Force base (Area 51 a.k.a. "Dreamland").
Make no mistake, Occupation: Dreamland turns out to be an anti-war film, but largely by accident, since at the time the filmmakers couldn't possibly have predicted the confluence ... Read More
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I really found this film affecting. It is not partisan or simplistic. It respects our troops by listening and being there. The military team the audience gets to hang with is strikingly diverse on every level. I walked out of the theater thinking that insight is more interesting than "answers". Every American should see this film.
Rating:  -
OPERATION DREAMLAND is interesting only for its inside look at a squad of the 82nd Airborn on active duty in Falluja (City of Mosques). Other than that, it has no plot or serious action and is basically an anti-war propaganda piece. Filmed in 2004 before the fierce battles for Falluja took place between American forces and terrorists and jihadists (in which they lost 900 and we lost 40), it is a rather boring and pedestrian look at a bunch of basically good young men trying to do a tough job. The ... Read More
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