Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

The fight has just begun.

APPROPIATE

2007 / 57min.

Rating6.357

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

In a war that has left more than 25,000 wounded, ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ looks at a new generation of veterans. Executive Producer James Gandolfini interviews ten Soldiers and Marines who reveal their feelings on their future, their severe disabilities and their devotion to America. The documentary surveys the physical and emotional cost of war through memories of their "alive day," the day they narrowly escaped death in Iraq.

Directors

Jon Alpert

Ellen Goosenberg Kent

Matthew O'Neill

Actors

James Gandolfini

Dexter Pitts

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