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Baghdad ER

Baghdad ER

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 16, 2006

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

79%

Original Title

Baghdad ER

Production Companies

HBO Documentary Films

Director

Jon Alpert

Description

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.