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Korengal

This is what war feels like

2014 · 1h 24m · R Documentary, War
Directed by Sebastian Junger

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Overview

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.

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86%
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Fresh

Most fascinating is the seemingly unanimous feeling that while deployment in Korengal was hard and heartbreaking, these veterans would do it all again just to stay together, to remain brothers who mutually understand something no on else will ever know.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

In a series of expertly edited interviews conducted with infantrymen on their way home after a year in the Korengal Valley, Junger exposes us to the war's psychological toll.

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

"Restrepo" felt like the story of how boys become men. "Korengal" feels like the story of how strangers become family.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

Those of us who haven't served on active duty can't know what it's like. Taken together, "Restrepo" and "Korengal" brings us about as close to the experience as we can, or would want, to get.

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh

The film is a tribute to the courage, tenacity and sorrow of the men with their boots on the ground in a place very far away.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

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