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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • SenArt Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • SenArt Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary In March 2004, just as the insurgent movement strengthened, several members of one National Guard unit arrived in Iraq, carrying digital video cameras. The War Tapes is the movie they made with Director Deborah Scranton and a team of award-winning filmmakers. It's the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves on the front lines in Ir...

Directed By: Deborah Scranton

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • SenArt Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • SenArt Films
  • 1 h 37 m

The War Tapes

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Summary In March 2004, just as the insurgent movement strengthened, several members of one National Guard unit arrived in Iraq, carrying digital video cameras. The War Tapes is the movie they made with Director Deborah Scranton and a team of award-winning filmmakers. It's the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves on the front lines in Ir...

Directed By: Deborah Scranton

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
77
92% Positive
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
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It's an experience that blows your mind, clears it and educates it.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
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The War Tapes captures how the war in Iraq, for all its terrible carnage and death, is in a way too random in its destruction to even be called ''combat.''
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
88
We get to know three of these courageous, funny, smart and perhaps permanently damaged men in a film that largely avoids telling us what to think and makes an effort to get near the truth of the soldiers' experience.
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80
The film acutely captures the topsy-turvy uncertainty of life during wartime, where there's Burger King and land mines and Pizza Hut and snipers.
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70
With its weary disillusionment, The War Tapes shouldn't be criticized for its seeming lack of outrage. Indeed, from the overwhelming grief and anger it uncovers, the film feels appropriately, uncomfortably numb.
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The latest in a series of big-screen documentaries dealing with the conflict, and it does so in a particularly involving, fly-on-the-wall manner.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
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On a strictly experiential level, Deborah Scranton's The War Tapes is remarkable, tactile, and affecting; as a piece of sociopolitical culture with context and ramifications of its own, it's a worthless ration of war propaganda--ethnocentric, redneck, and enabling.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company SenArt Films, Scranton/Lacy Films
Release Date Jun 2, 2006
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.thewartapes.com/the_film/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination

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