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Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger. It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the…
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The two-decade war in Afghanistan, concluded in 2021 with a chaotic withdrawal, is now widely regarded as one of the more significant strategic and moral fiascos in modern American, and indeed Western, history. Yet, for much of its duration—at least until its midpoint—the conflict retained a degree of public legitimacy in the West as the “Good War.” This perception was rooted in its origins as a seemingly justifiabl…More
*Restrepo* is, by far, the best documentary I have seen in a long time. The film was nominated for the Oscar for best Documentary in 2011, but lost. Mostly because the Academy doesn't know jack. I was a bit surprised that *Waiting for Superman* did not even get a nomination in the documentary category in 2010 (which must have been typical Academy politics). Documentaries, by their nature, can feel incomplete. *Restr…More
