Combat Obscura

It's sort of an eye-opener just to see something this unbiased and un-manipulative.

This remarkable film comes across as war's backstage story-it's about the stuff they leave out of the official coverage.

Depicts the war beneath the narratives, capturing the soldier's experience with an immediacy that explodes political abstraction, placing it in a more humanist context.

[in this] jangled, jarring Afghan War documentary, a Marine Corps cameraman shows the flippant cynicism of combat in ways the military would rather we not think about.