This harrowing war film follows American soldiers on a 15-month deployment in the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan. In an unrelentingly harsh landscape, the unit digs in, takes enemy fire, and returns it, every day. Not everyone makes it out alive. Scenes of the chaos of combat are interspersed with post-deployment interviews, and both are devastating. In the Korengal there is no backup, and when the soldiers leave the relative safety of their outpost to meet and talk with the local inhabitants, people who could be Taliban, their vulnerability is palpable. In this era of embedded journalists, filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington are able to depict the reality and horror of war with an immediacy unimaginable in wars past.  TBW