The Ground Truth trailer

The Ground Truth stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals. Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans -- ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq -- as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home -- with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all -- the truth.

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[Rockaway77]

I don't know why we ignore all the History lessons we learned in school and forget that goverments have ALWAYS lied to its people.

ex. Napolean pretended to be under attack to justify war and strenthen his empire. Hitler was brutaly honest and even he told lies.

Its silly to believe we know just why bush is over there. We have a sensored media. Ignorant US citzens believe the US is the defender of Freedom.

The excuse to conquer America was Christianity. The new excuse is Democracy

[eline65]

More leftist propaganda. Find Jihad Watch and see for yourself what out blessed troops are fighting for. Whose freedoms are we protecting? That would be EVERYONES! Read the milblogs and see what are troops are really saying. Let's not forget, this is a media war too. Every call for surrender from the peace nicks ends up in jihadist recruitment videos. I've already seen Moore's movie clips in one. So please bite your tong before screaming to "get out now". Makes me sick!

[vicious986]

Before you talk crap on these troops, I suggest watching the documentary to hear what they have to say about there experience in Iraq and the dehumnization of war. Your proabbly suffer from the trauma of the war your self gbroagfran, but it does not give you the right to vent your frustrations on the other troops that just find it wrong, on how we handle policy over there in iraq.

[gbroagfran]

Having served myself I can only say that anyone who bitches because they signed up for the military then has to fight is a friggen MORON.

[KCtheKat]

I guess I'll be getting banned now for speaking out against the liberal agenda. But It least maybe someone will learn what thinking of others, and not oneself is all about. We were once a nation of strong willed sacrificing people, who would go out of their way to help others and defend freedom at any cost.

[KCtheKat]

Bring a Soldier isn't easy, if it was then everybody would be one. It takes a special person to take themselves out of the picture and look at the bigger picture. This is a part of what being a hero is all about. Sacrificing oneself for the betterment of others.