Baghdad ER
MovieTitle | Baghdad ER |
User score | 7.3 |
Release date | Nov 16, 2006 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Matthew O'Neill , Jon Alpert |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | HBO Documentary Films |
Run time | 64 min. |
Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Saddam Hussein?s elite medical facilities. Shot over two months in the summer of 2005, the film puts a human face on the war's cold casualty statistics, as doctors and nurses fight to save the lives of wounded soldiers who are Medevaced (helicoptered) in a numbingly routine basis.