Body Of War

2008, Movie, NR, 87 mins

Body Of War: Review

Released into theaters on the fifth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq War when the number of U.S. soldiers killed topped 4000, producers/directors Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro's powerful documentary takes a microcosmic look at the war and its devastation by focusing on a single casualty: Tomas Young, a 25-year-old enlistee from Kansas City, MO, who returned from Iraq after a brief tour of duty paralyzed from the chest down. Like a lot of future American soldiers, Young went do... read more leave a comment