The Ground Truth (2006)
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Filmmaker Patricia Foulkrod produced and directed this documentary, designed to shed light on a little examined side of war -- the soldiers who do the fighting. The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War focuses on the men and women who fought in the War in Iraq, but found themselves largely ignored in… More Filmmaker Patricia Foulkrod produced and directed this documentary, designed to shed light on a little examined side of war -- the soldiers who do the fighting. The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War focuses on the men and women who fought in the War in Iraq, but found themselves largely ignored in the media coverage of the conflict and in their treatment by the military bureaucracy when they came back from the front lines. In extensive interviews with veterans of the Iraq war, these men and women talk about the hardships of war, the danger of serving in a country where the people you defend often consider you the enemy, the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder, the gap between media coverage of the war and the grim realities soldiers see on the battlefield, and the often callous treatment extended to soldiers by military authorities and the Veterans Administration. The Ground Truth was planned with a March 2005 release in mind, in hopes of having the film in theaters in time for the second anniversary of the beginning of the war. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Patricia Foulkrod
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 15, 2006 Wide
- On DVD
- Sep 26, 2006
- Studio
- Focus Features
Critic Reviews
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Claudia Puig, USA Today
The voices of these brave young people reverberate hauntingly.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Mostly a string of talking-head interviews, but those talking heads -- more than 16 men and women -- are compelling.
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
It's a haunting and welcome addition to the growing library of war documentaries; one that wisely lets its subjects speak for themselves.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The Ground Truth powerfully documents the human cost of the Iraq war.
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Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
It's an edifying, upsetting film that offers a different perspective on the situation in the Middle East.
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