Body of War

Phil Donahue takes skill at connecting with real people and their human stories as a talk show host, and extends it to documentary filmmaking. The parallel tracks of the film are fascinating. You see a country rush to war without much thought as well as a young man volunteer for service while lacking internal consternation. Both stories have tragic fallouts on an intellectual & emotional level in Tomas's paralysis and the government/media's propaganda campaign. Highly recommended and well done.

Extremely effective. Robert Byrd comes off like a super hero in this.

Very repetative and not that good. Interesting to see how politics re-use so many things someone else said, that's some dumb shit

"Body of War is a gut-wrenching documentary experience." - Ed Gonzalez