Interview with the two documentary film makers, one of the five finalists for an Oscar in the documentary category. Restrepo chronicles a year with a single platoon stationed at the Restrepo outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, considered one of the military's most dangerous postings.
Co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington spent 10 months with the platoon, capturing the daily lives of soldiers as they pushed back Taliban fighters and foreign insurgents.
| Not the usual NPR line on such things, but they're doing a week-long series on the finalists in this category, so there it is. The interviewees seem to think we're winning over there, and have information to show the bad guys are considerably more than a legitimate local insurgency. |
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