Making of FRONTLINE Bad Voodoo's War | PBS

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SGT J.P. Borda, SFC Toby Nunn and director Deborah Scranton tell the story of how a virtual friendship led to the making of Bad Voodoo's War, coming April 1 to PBS and http://www.pbs.org/frontline/badvoodoo/

In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves the "Bad Voodoo Platoon" was deployed to Iraq. To capture a vivid, first-person account of the new realities of war in Iraq for FRONTLINE and ITVS director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created a "virtual embed" with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so they could record and tell the story of their war. The film intimately tracks the veteran soldiers of "Bad Voodoo" through the daily grind of their perilous mission, dodging deadly IEDs, grappling with the political complexities of dealing with Iraqi security forces, and battling their fatigue and their fears.

Watch on air and online beginning April 1, 2008.

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[ravnar101]

After watching this show it reinforced all the reasons why we should end this war. These soldiers deserve our respect and admiration, the people in government that benefit from this war at the betrayal of those who serve deserve the opposite.

[SactoGlock17]

I have seen this program it is very good. And the soldiers do want to come home, one guy has served 5 tours now, that is just ridicules. There job is to escort food people not even themselves.

[JMHamilton1]

Thank you for sharing this video with me and I will look into this website and someday I hope to meet everyone I have talked to, here on youtube and the other websites I'm talking to people on. Again thank, my eye's are open and God bless.

John

[JeffreyRodriguez]

Deborah also had a spectacular talk at TED on these videos. Google: Deborah Scranton TED