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Women in Colombian Politics

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Restrepo Review

One of the lasting lines that stays with me from this film is when one solider asks, “What are we doing here?” I think when we first entered Afghanistan many people believed it was justified. It was...

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Thoughts on Restrepo

Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film following the 15-month deployment of an American military platoon in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, a notoriously dangerous place. The access that journalists...

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Restrepo Review

As if illustrating the Afghanistan war, the opening of Restrepo was dark and almost elusive: we begin with undefined characters recounting their experiences the Korangal Valley, a chain of high...

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Restrepo Commentary- Alexis Barnes

Restrepo is an incredible example of embedding journalists so well that you forget they are there. It became apparent that photographer Tim Hetherington and journalist Sebastian Junge had fostered a...

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Restrepo Review

The 2010 documentary film Restrepo gives us — an audience most likely sitting in the comfort of our homes — an idea of the horrors and hardships American soldiers endured on a day to day basis in the...

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The Real Story of War — Review of Restrepo

The typical pace of cinema leaves no room for pause. Action and dialogue are densely packed for max drama, and war movies are no exception. With long silences and scenes of soldiers doing nothing,...

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Restrepo, a Review

The U.S. is set to leave a contingent of soldiers in Afghanistan after the new year, when the promise had been that we would fully withdraw. It’s a complicated and confusing foreign policy move that...

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Movie Review: Restrepo

Korangal Valley or the “Valley of Death”, as it’s called by the American Forces, is home to more than a dozen villages built into the rocky faces of the mountains. It’s nicknamed so because the...

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Iran and Saudi Arabia: The Battle for Hegemony

By: Hakeem Muhammad & Julius Motal A proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia is waging in the region, from Lebanon to the shores of Yemen, claiming thousands of lives and – in Iraq and Syria –...

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