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Occupation: Dreamland

Starring: Matthew Bacik, Chris Corcione, Eric Forbes, Patrick Napoli, Thomas Turner

Directed by: Ian Olds, Garrett Scott

RS: 3.5of 4 Stars

2006

Want to see a teenage U.S. soldier who doesn't speak the language try to placate an Iraqi civilian whose wife has been senselessly detained? In 2004, filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds embedded with the Army's 82nd Airborne in Falluja, as that city went from tense to untenable chaos. This riveting, unrestricted portrait of what war is like for those on the lowest end of the totem pole shows the opposite of roses in the streets.

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