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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Richard E. Robbins, which portrays the lives and experiences of American combat soldiers who have been to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience: Directed by Richard Robbins. With Sharon D. Allen, Beau Bridges, Colby Buzzell, Richard Currey. A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men.
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- 2007-02-09
Filmmaker Richard Robbins, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts, combines discussions about first-hand narratives of war throughout history with dramatic readings of...
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Jan 15, 2008 · Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. The best of the almost too many Iraq war docs is this one. It uses a variety of filmmaking styles, from dramatic re-creations to narrated documentary footage to animation, to capture the boots-on-the-ground experience of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mar 30, 2007 · What is Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience about? Actors including Robert Duvall, Josh Lucas, Beau Bridges, Blair Underwood and Aaron Eckhart perform dramatic readings from a collection of writings by soldiers in Iraq.
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releases Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, the culmination of Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, a program launched by the NEA in 2004 to encourage U.S. troops to write about their wartime experiences. The anthology of letters, e-mails, personal ...
Feb 5, 2008 · Richard Robbins’ documentary Operation Homecoming is one of a number of recent features (both dramas and documentaries) exploring the consequences of the US invasion of Iraq.