There's a strange irony in the fact that one of the most provocative documentaries about the ongoing war in Iraq was shot some 7500 miles from Baghdad in California's Mojave Desert. There on a sprawling, 1000 square mile stretch of arid, sun-scorched land, the U.S. Army has constructed it's own Iraq at the National Training Center and Fort Irwin, a facility designed to train soldiers who are about to be deployed to the real locale. But the NTC is much more than a desert obstacle course: It's a billion dollar virtual world with 13 different mock Iraqi villages staffed with 1600 role players, 250 of whom are Iraqis who eat, sleep and work at the facility. Each actor is...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins