The Ground Truth movie

Submitted by Joe on August 21, 2006 - 12:09pm.

I watched the trailer for the forthcoming film 'The Ground Truth' on Apple Trailers today - seems like a pretty profound and powerful movie about the reality of life in the modern armed forces.

The blurb on Apple.com's The Ground Truth trailer page says … '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 communities.'

Here's the YouTube.com trailer:


This was the description of the movie from the YouTube trailer uploaded by the film makers, Focus Features...

The Ground Truth stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals. Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing 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 communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home -- with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all -- the truth.

IMDB.com doesn't list any UK release dates - maybe we'll have to request it at The Electric Cinema or something.

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