An extremely rare exposé of an under-reported story and an opportunity to have an inside look into Afghanistan.

Director Greg Barker gives audiences an inside look into the events surrounding American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh’s capture, his trial, and the immense media frenzy and jingoism it catalyzed.

Frame by Frame combines vérité, interviews and never-before-seen archival footage to showcase four Afghan photojournalists documenting their war-torn country. The documentary opens with photojournalist Massoud Hossaini rushing to cover another suicide bombing and segues into historical television and radio reports over a montage of compelling historical photographs. This sets the scene of the country’s complex […]

Directed by Dan Krauss Produced by Krauss and Linda Davis Written by Kruass, Lawrence Lerew and Davis Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 79 min. Not rated As a result of the violence they witness, soldiers often walk a fine line between morality and sanity, a demarcation that’s been well fictionalized in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of […]

Written & Directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson Produced by Mark Wahlberg, Mr. Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Barry Spikings, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Levinson & Vitaly Grigogoriants Released by Universal Pictures USA. 121 min. Rated R With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, […]

Directed by Richard Rowley Produced by Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin & Jeremy Scahill Written by Scahill & David Riker, in companion with Scahill’s book Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield Released by Sundance Selects USA. 87 min. Not rated Dirty Wars connects how the celebrated successes and piecemeal scandals about the global war on […]

The more than two dozen documentaries at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival aimed for hearts and minds and many succeeded as audience pleasers. This year’s selections, in and out of competition and as special events, straddled the world, and are notable for their timeliness, for celebrating people at a surprising variety of work, and for […]

Directed by Danfung Dennis Produced by Mike Lerner & Martin Herring Released by Docurama Films Pashtu & English with English subtitles USA. 88 min Not rated Accomplished photojournalist Danfung Dennis spends time behind enemy lines in Afghanistan tracking Echo Company, an outfit of the U.S. Marine corps assigned to a reconnaissance mission moving deep into […]

Produced & Directed by Heather Courtney Released by International Film Circuit USA. 91 min. Not rated Heather Courtney’s documentary Where Soldiers Come From grew out of a wish to tell a real story about the town she grew up in and to rehabilitate the Middle American, small-town stereotype—a hokey, hickish caricature of Red State racism and Tea Party […]