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  • 2008
  • Truly Indie
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2008
  • Truly Indie
  • 1 h 29 m
Fighting for Life

Summary Fighting for Life is a very different movie about war and medicine, a real-life "M*A*S*H" for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines. The film interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses, and medics who are working with skill, compassion, and dedication amid the vortex of the Iraq War; wounded soldiers and...

Directed By: Terry Sanders

Written By: Christine Z. Wiser, Terry Sanders

  • 2008
  • Truly Indie
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2008
  • Truly Indie
  • 1 h 29 m

Fighting for Life

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Fighting for Life is a very different movie about war and medicine, a real-life "M*A*S*H" for our times about the doctors and nurses fighting on the front lines. The film interweaves stories of military doctors, nurses, and medics who are working with skill, compassion, and dedication amid the vortex of the Iraq War; wounded soldiers and...

Directed By: Terry Sanders

Written By: Christine Z. Wiser, Terry Sanders

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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If Fighting for Life is propaganda, it's the best kind, largely avoiding editorialization and instead focusing on simple human drama.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
70
These 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.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
70
The 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.
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63
There 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.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
63
The doctors and nurses who care for America's wounded troops on the battlefield and in hospitals get their due in Fighting for Life.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
60
Some of the most upsetting images are from a century and a half ago: Mathew Brady photos of the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War, the conflict that gave birth to modern battlefield surgery.
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60
Director 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."
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Production Company American Film Foundation, Sanders and Mock Productions
Release Date Mar 7, 2008
Duration 1 h 29 m
Genres
Tagline When the battle ends, their fight begins.
Website http://www.fightingforlifethemovie.com/
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