Restrepo

An Oscar-nominated, intense, eye-opening, nail-biting, 94-minute 2010 documentary in which war photographer Tim Hetherington and author Sebastian Junger show the hell of war by following the Second Platoon of soldiers, including Dan Kearning, LaMonta Coldwell, Aron Hijar, Misha Pemble-Belkin, Miguel Cortez, Sterling Jones, Brendan O'Byrne, Joshua MCDonough, Kyle Steiner, William Ostlund, and Kevin Rice, as they perform their daily grind and partake in dangerous missions such as Operation Rock Avalanche in the army's fight against the Taliban while stationed in the Korengal Valley at the "Kops" and "Restrepo" (named after fallen soldier Juan "Doc" Restrepo) outposts in Afghanistan in 2007.
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