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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359373022
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Running Time: 64 minutes
Sales Rank: 14127
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Description:
Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy? Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army?s premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein?s elite medical facilities. Shot over two months in the summer of 2005, the film puts a human face on the war?s cold casualty statistics, as doctors and nurses fight to save the lives of wounded soldiers who are Medevaced (helicoptered) in a numbingly routine basis.
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HBO's unflinching Baghdad ER makes programs like Grey's Anatomy and House look like kiddie cartoons. Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, the fly-on-the wall documentary tracks the days and nights of the 86th Combat Support Hospital. Located in Baghdad's Green Zone, the CSH is the Army’s premier medical facility in Iraq. It's a busy place. Most of the injuries--almost 18,000 from 2003-2005--are due to IEDs (improvised explosive devices). Patients with minor problems are patched up and sent on their way. More severe cases are medevaced to Germany or the States. Still others won't make it. Then there are those who lose limbs. It isn't an uncommon occurrence, and the film features discomfiting moments concerning those individuals (the sequences may be brief, but they're undeniably disturbing). But all is not trauma and tears. Alpert and O'Neill also catch the hard-working staff during rare moments of levity: playing the saxophone, smoking cigars, and telling bad jokes. As Captain Merritt Pember accedes, "There's a lot of stuff we laugh about and probably shouldn't--it helps keep us sane." According to the introductory text, "Ninety percent of American soldiers wounded in Iraq survive. This is the highest rate of war survivors in US History." Baghdad ER brings that impressive statistic to indelible life. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Rating:  -
The numbers in the title are for the Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. They are as close as I could figure because various websites list various numbers.
Regardless of whether they support or oppose the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, every single adult American should watch this HBO documentary. Baghdad ER is a brief glimpse into the chaos and carnage of modern warfare. This is what is happening now. This is not the sanitized dry count given by CNN or FOX. This is behind the scenes in an ... Read More
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This was hard to watch . I needed to see this , but it hurt to see Americans die like this and the people who tried to save them. It hurt . These were Americans getting killed in real life. It was a good movie but so hard to watch . It emotionally disturbed me .
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Excellent service. Received the DVD very quickly. I do think the postage is way too expensive though.
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Very good realistic look at the results of combat, even given the editing to make it more palatable for the average person.
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This is a very good documentary. But it is a tough one to watch. It's gory. The makers have not flinced from depicting the reality of what gunshot and explosives injuries are really like.
The documentary is not vouyeristic or exploitive. It has no apparent 'agenda'.
But it leaves you feeling pretty grim to know that these events are occuring every day in Iraq. Every day dozens of young Americans are being smashed up. Not to mention the hundreds of Iraqi civilians being butchered. ... Read More
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