
"Fighting for Life" follows American military doctors, nurses and medics on the front lines of the Iraq War, young wounded soldiers and marines determined to survive and to heal, and students of USU, the "best medical school no one's ever heard of," on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.... (Full plot summary below)
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"Fighting for Life" follows American military doctors, nurses and medics on the front lines of the Iraq War, young wounded soldiers and marines determined to survive and to heal, and students of USU, the "best medical school no one's ever heard of," on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.
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| VarietyJohn AndersonThe only people who seem immune to the politics of the Iraq War are also at its epicenter: the doctors and nurses who mend and tend to the wounded, and who provide the heart and soul of Terry Sanders' Fighting for Life. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonDirector Terry Sanders's goal of comprehensiveness and some bad sequencing prevents the film from achieving the ringing purity of John Huston's postwar doc "Let There Be Light." |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonIf you're wondering where the heroes went, take a look at this group, and see if you're not impressed. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayIf Fighting for Life is propaganda, it's the best kind, largely avoiding editorialization and instead focusing on simple human drama. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThese young men and women aren't in it for the money, or the glory; they only want to save lives and heal wounds. That's another kind of glory. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoSanders provides a rare glimpse into the world of the doctors and nurses tasked with saving lives in difficult circumstances. You cannot leave Fighting for Life without a deep sense of respect for the medical personnel and the patients. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA salute to the courageous and caring work done by military doctors and nurses in Iraq, Germany, and the United States. |
| Slant MagazinePaul SchrodtThough it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThere are some heartbreaking moments here, from the reactions of recent amputees to the tearful doctors and nurses trying hard to remain professional. And there is no question that Sanders has discovered a worthy subject. He just hasn't found the right way to approach it. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThe doctors and nurses who care for America's wounded troops on the battlefield and in hospitals get their due in Fighting for Life. |