High Ground (2012)
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100% of critics liked it
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Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to… More Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S. history. (c) Official Site
- Directed By
- Michael Brown
- Written By
- Michael Brown
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 2, 2012 Limited
- On DVD
- Nov 6, 2012
- Studio
- Red Flag Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"High Ground" is a moving documentary that is both the film it presents itself to be and something more.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Brown ... translates a collage of experiences - some desperate, some hopeful, all tragic - into a first-person commentary on the malign reverberations of war.
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Ian Buckwalter, NPR
Brown takes advantage of the opportunity to present a broad array of feelings, less on the nature of these conflicts in particular and more on the mindset of the soldier in war - and the difficulties faced when no longer in the midst of the conflict.
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Ernest Hardy, Village Voice
[An] impressively restrained documentary ...
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
A less than inspiring documentary about extremely inspiring individuals, "High Ground" is worth seeing for what it shows rather than how it shows it.
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