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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 min.) ; 318834683 bytes |
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*Frequent Coarse Language and Violence*Veteran combat photographer Jon Steele has returned to Iraq with Baker Company, a select group of Army soldiers who purposely enter an Al Qaeda stronghold on a counterinsurgency mission for the last three months of their tour of duty.Baker Boys: Inside the Surge is a close up and honest depiction of what the war looks like from the ground. Steele is the cameraman and narrator who interviews the members of Baker Company both in the war zone and when they return home to the U.S.The documentary bears witness to the physical and emotional cost paid by American soldiers who, after years of fighting to win the war in Iraq, are now cast into an unfamiliar and unsettling role of winning the peace with non traditional weapons; talking, trust building, and cash.Baker Boys: Inside the Surge is extremely powerful. Viewers will be deeply moved by these soldiers and the stories that they tell in their own words.As the Baker Boys' deployment enters its final month the focus starts to shift from the mission at hand to making it out of Iraq alive. The Army completes construction of a bridge and hands over the bridge security detail to the Shiite dominated Iraqi Army, the first major test of the Americans' exit strategy.Ethnic tensions between Sunni villagers and the Shiite army are high and the Baker Boys wonder whether the progress of the past few months will disappear if centuries old clashes flare up again.PRODUCTION DETAILSShot and written by Jon Steele. Point Prod and Gigapix Studios in association with Sandbag Productions |
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Broadcast 2011-06-23 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Bridges.
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Insurgency.
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Iraqis -- Social conditions.
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Soldiers -- Psychology.
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United States. Army.
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Iraq.
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Streaming video
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Bell, John, contributor
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Bradley, Gary, contributor
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Brawley, Paul, contributor
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Crimmins, Daniel, contributor
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Mtume, contributor
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Getscher, Emril, contributor
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Grigsby, Wayne, contributor
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Hemmann, Steven, contributor
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Kirkpatrick, John, contributor
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Konwiser, Kern, director
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Labelle, Isaac, contributor
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Marr, Jack, contributor
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Schofield, Andrew, contributor
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Steele, Jon, contributor
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Thompson, Rich, contributor
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