Shadow Company

Shadow Company (2007)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 85% of users liked it
    (1,176 ratings)

Filmmakers Jason Bourque and Nick Bicanic explore the trend of private militaries around the world in this documentary examining the increasingly blurred distinction between soldier and mercenary. In a time when powerful multinational corporations are contracting private mercenaries to fight wars,… More

Unrated,
Directed By
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Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Apr 16, 2007 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune

    Shadow Company provides a pretty thorough examination of the unknown soldiers doing a lot of the heavy lifting there, outside the conventional rules of warfare.

  • Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times

    Drawing a line between official and unofficial forces is irrelevant since both are paid with our taxes, Shadow Company throws light on that bottom line in the war on terror.

  • Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

    Though it offers interesting stories, Shadow Company does feel a little scattered.

  • Peter Debruge, Variety

    Shadow Company is a lesson in how to get audiences who know little and care even less about the Iraq War to sit up and pay attention.

  • Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

    There isn't as much exposé as you might expect in Shadow Company, but there's considerably more thoughtfulness.

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  • Walter M


    "Shadow Company" is an eye-opening documentary about the history and current state of military contractors(or mercenaries, if you like) with a special emphasis on the Iraq War. For a start, this is nothing new which is how countries did business until the rise of the nation… More

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