Baghdad ER is One Gripping Documentary

I just caught the lion’s share of Baghdad ER, a documentary that aired on HBO tonight. It was bloody gripping (and just bloody):

2-time Emmy Award winner producer/director Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill capture the humanity, hardships and heroism of the US Military and medical personnel of the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the Army’s premier medical facility in Iraq.

It’s one of the few pieces I’ve seen about Iraq that’s propaganda and (as far as I could tell) bias free. It just tells the story of this combat ER unit, without arguing for or against the war.

It apparently airs again on Memorial Day. That’s May 29th for the non-Americans readers.

1 comment

  1. Sounds like an interesting show – sort of like MASH for the new century. I wonder if Alan Alda will do a cameo.
    Thanks for the tip. Good TV is hard to find.

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