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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Herod Noel, Charles Anderson, Kelly Dougherty, Robert Acosta, Aidan Delgado
Directed By: Patricia Foulkrod
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193207029
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-09-26
Running Time: 78
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Summary: Everyone American should see this movie
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This tells what we do not see in the mainstream media. The experiences of the young people coming back from Iraq. Every American should see this documentary
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Summary: Essential truths
Comment: "The Ground Truth," basically a compendium of short-take interviews with Iraq occupation veterans and family members, interspersed with some war footage you will not have seen before, is riveting, despite the format. More than that, it tells the truth of that war and occupation more honestly and completely than you'll ever see on CNN, Fox or the broadcast networks. If you vote, you should see this film.
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Summary: Reality Check of Iraq War
Comment: Ground Truth provides an honest insight of the tragic and stupid nature of the Iraq "war". It reaffirms what most Americans know about how we as a people have been duped by a small number of "neocon" radicals. The human & economic cost is borne out by "The Ground Truth" with the focus on the terrible impact on our military, & their families.
What is missing is an answer to how the American people can regain positive control of their government. This is a must see for all Americans!
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Summary: A Grinding LIE....
Comment: What an unobjective piece of garbage 'film'. The reason it took her so long to make it was finding the dishonoable misfits who criticize their country. I thank them for serving, I am sorry for their injuries, yet I cannot forgive their point of view. If you want Liberal garbage, this is it. Too bad I was forced to give it one star.
Gary
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Summary: One sided has got nothing to do with it...
Comment: What makes this film work is that it allows the stories to be told entirely by the soldiers themselves, without fancy graphics, jump cuts, or voice over. It's a tribute to the work of director Foulkrod and editor Hall that this complicated story plays out so smoothly. The soldiers interviewed are cut from ordinary Joe cloth and are the kind of people that grew up on your block, that you went to school with, and that you've worked with. Stories told like this just don't get any more compelling.
Many negative reviews of this fine film concentrate on the notion that it is "slanted" or "one sided". What many of these reviewers fail to recognize is that the imperatives of documentary film making have little to do with "fairness" and "balance". Documentary film's closest cousin is the personal, expository essay. It is underwritten 100% by point-of-view and opinion; without that underwriting it would be worthless as a record of personal experience. To ask a documentary to be "fair and balanced" is, in effect, asking it to be jejune and toothless. Put another way, if a documentary doesn't have a point of view, it isn't doing its job, sort of like the ham-fisted student who opines, in a desultory essay conclusion, "It's not for me to say..." Well, if you're not willing to say, then what good are you? The filmmaker, like the student, is invited to take a stand--if she doesn't, then she's doing no one any good.
The turning point of this film, and of much public debate about the Iraq war, is that many American veterans have been publicly let down by the support systems that were supposed to be there for them. The stories told here are by those who were let down. Doing a "compare and contrast" piece of ten vets who were cared for and ten who weren't would be pretty pointless indeed.
Finally, I would caution those who are quick to confuse "slanted" with "telling me things I don't agree with" or "telling me things I'd rather not hear". This willful and too-common confusion, by those who sit all along the political spectrum, is sad evidence of the infantilization of our society as a whole.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The stories are those of a half-dozen american heroes ordinary men & women who heeded the call for military service in iraq. This charts recruitment & training combat homecoming & the struggle to reintegrate with families & communities. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/26/2006 Run time: 78 minutes Rating: R
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