The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles tak... (Full plot summary below)
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The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA turning-point documentary which presents the truth about the war in Iraq in the profound and troubling words of veterans who fought there. |
| PremiereSara BradyThis film, a raw howl of outrage and pain, is proudly one-sided, allowing a generation of wounded men and women to scream their betrayal. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe documentary any American with an opinion on our involvement in Iraq owes it to his or her conscience to see. |
| Cinema WriterJay Antaniperhaps the most important protest statement yet committed to film since the outbreak of [the Iraq War] |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioThe veteran's problems are something which should be done something about and soon, but a theatrical release of a propaganda film is not going to do anything for their cause. |
| CinematicalChristopher Campbell"The success of The Ground Truth lies in the courageously open and honest interviewees, but it works because of Rob Hall's editing, which not only compiles for us a perfectly evidential collection of footage but does so at a pace that doesn't dilly-dally |
| SlateDana StevensWrenching new documentary about returning veterans, may not single-handedly reverse the trend of ignoring Iraq docs in theatrical release, but it should. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJames GreenbergFoulkrod's film is not about taking a political side, though it is clear she is strongly opposed to the war in Iraq. Her focus instead is on the dehumanizing of eager young men and their transformation into killing machines. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe details are eye-opening (or ear-opening, in the case of marching songs taught to the new Marines about slaughtering Arab schoolchildren), but soon Foulkrod's film backs itself into a Support Our Troops corner. |
| Reel.comPam GradyThis documentary is enraging. So much lip service is paid to supporting the troops; so little support is actually given. |
