Cinematography:
Ivan StrasburgCast:
Alexander Skarsgård, Stark Sands, Michael Kelly, Jon Huertas, Neal Jones, Brian Patrick Wade, Lee Tergesen, Kellan Lutz, Pawel Szajda, Mike Figueroa (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(7)
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Get Some (E01)
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The Cradle of Civilization (E02)
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Screwby (E03)
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Combat Jack (E04)
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A Burning Dog (E05)
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Stay Frosty (E06)
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Bomb in the Garden (E07)
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Based on the national best-selling book by Evan Wright, Generation Kill is an authentic and vividly detailed 7 part HBO mini-series event that presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion, a new breed of American soldiers. The mini-series tells the story of these young Marines physical and emotional journey into the heart of Baghdad in those initial weeks, and how the war reveals to be much more complicated, problematic and tragic than anyone had contemplated. Many of the complications and problems that arise are due to the unwieldy military bureaucracy which the Marines confront in the midst of the war, the challenges of over-zealous and incompetent commanding officers, ever-changing rules of engagement, a non-existent strategy, severe deficiencies in necessary armor and supplies, and an enemy they don't understand. (official distributor synopsis)
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I don't understand how the U.S. military, which narcissistically guards its media image, loaned all the equipment and technology to make a work that portrays them as a bunch of absolute morons, where one would look in vain for a rational thinking being. When the protagonists realize this at the end and Johnny Cash plays some tunes for them, the perfect score I gave the film is definitively vindicated. HBO rules! ()