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.
Direction
Alpert's embedded access is unprecedented and terrifying.
Editing
64 minutes of controlled chaos—no narration needed.
Director
Jon Alpert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 86th CSH was built on Saddam Hussein's old elite hospital site—American military medicine literally occupying the dictator's former infrastructure.
HBO buried this Emmy winner; it aired once and largely vanished, perhaps too uncomfortable for patriotic viewing.
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