Baghdad ER - An HBO Documentary Film
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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 Armys 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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Baghdad ER (DVD)
ASIN: B000G1R4V6
VSKU: DBV.B000G1R4V6.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:John Alpert
Binding: Dvd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
ASIN: B000G1R4V6
VSKU: DBV.B000G1R4V6.N
Condition: New
Author/Artist:John Alpert
Binding: Dvd
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
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