Baghdad E.R.

[topher]

Tonight is the opening show of life at a US Army hospital in Baghdad's Green Zone. The hospital has a, IIRC, 98% survival rate. HBO is doing this uneditted.

This is way too powerful.

Please, keep discussion to the show.

[Oxynia]

Shit, I caught just the wee end of that and I don't think I could have handled more of it. I can handle the artificial traumas on shows like ER but knowing this is real, and that I've lost a very close friend there a year ago this week...well that leaves me gutted.

Maybe I'll screw up the courage to watch more next week. I think this is important television and the more unsanitised reality we see of Iraq, the better.

[topher]

When they showed three guys from Illinois hurt , I felt like I knew these guys even though I didn't.

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I watched the whole thing. My God if I didn't have respect for our brother and sisters serving whether it's in the field or in the hospitals, I sure do now. Very difficult to watch but I figure if these kids can go through this hell then the least I can do is spend an hour getting a glimpse of the hell they go through.

I also like how the filmmakers just plain showed us the footage without giving a political commentary.

[indygirl]

I just watched the show. Is this a series or a one-off documentary? Very powerful. I started tearing up when the Illinois soldiers were brought in. Watchig them fight so hard to save the Marine...no words for that moment.

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I've been told by two separate american friends to watch but I couldn't find it in Canada. Not unusual but its' got to be somewhere. So I searched online and it might be available on cable on demand. But I have to ask if it's a series or was it a 2 hour documentary or If I can find it on the dial here, I'd like to see it but hope I haven't missed it entirely.

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caribou said:

I've been told by two separate american friends to watch but I couldn't find it in Canada. Not unusual but its' got to be somewhere. So I searched online and it might be available on cable on demand. But I have to ask if it's a series or was it a 2 hour documentary or If I can find it on the dial here, I'd like to see it but hope I haven't missed it entirely.

It's a documentary and it is available on HBO on demand here in the US I think.

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Finally found it in Canada on digital. Thank goodness for fast forward on that service. The surgeries were beyond my strength to watch. But I do agree, this documentary is excellent for showing what they all go through over there.

I wish it was longer though. I think it ran just over an hour in total. Does anyone know if they're doing more at some point?