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Summary Patricia Foulkrod's documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. 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 ...

Directed By: Patricia Foulkrod

Written By: Patricia Foulkrod

  • 2006
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 12 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 12 m

The Ground Truth

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Summary Patricia Foulkrod's documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. 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 ...

Directed By: Patricia Foulkrod

Written By: Patricia Foulkrod

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This film, a raw howl of outrage and pain, is proudly one-sided, allowing a generation of wounded men and women to scream their betrayal.
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Wrenching new documentary about returning veterans, may not single-handedly reverse the trend of ignoring Iraq docs in theatrical release, but it should.
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This thoughtful, sensitive film, perhaps the most emotionally wrenching of all the Iraq documentaries, could have been made after any war.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
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Far from being a mere polemic, The Ground Truth is bolstered immeasurably by Foulkrod’s almost exclusive use of interviews with actual veterans.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW
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Compelling and intensely provocative.
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67
Foulkrod's film instead airs some of the hard-won truths learned by American soldiers from experience.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
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The 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.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Plum Pictures, Radioaktive Film
Release Date Sep 15, 2006
Duration 1 h 12 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.thegroundtruth.org/
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Awards

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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