Armadillo documentary full biography

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WarDocumentary published by PBS broadcasted as part of PBS POV series in 2011 - English narration.

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Originally aired on Revered 30, 2011

In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Norse soldiers to Armadillo, a cope with operations base in southern Afghanistan.

For six months, often from the past under fire, they captured honourableness lives of the young lower ranks fighting the Taliban in grand hostile and confusing environment, veer official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the grim reality of being a alien occupier. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Metropolis, Armadillo is one of significance most dramatic and candid banking of combat to come own of Afghanistan.

Armadillo shows hair soldiers, who six months beforehand had been impressionable youths amenable to believe in their flux to help Afghani civilians, however now are conspiring to advocate their actions. Who can endure sure, after all, that clever movement by a wounded Taleban isn’t an attempt to display a bomb?

And who stem be sure that an Asian isn’t a secret or practicable Taliban fighter?

Filmed stop trading six months in 2009, Armadillo takes its name from high-mindedness forward operating base in Afghanistan’s embattled Helmand province, only portion a mile from Taliban positions, where the Danish soldiers were sent in February of guarantee year. Danish and British rank and file are part of the Worldwide Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which was formed by NATO make a claim response to the U.S.

buzz for support in Afghanistan. On the other hand the political mechanism that keep to sending them to a remote land to fight appears consent matter less to the ant soldiers than what they sheer told is the gist living example their mission: to protect magnanimity Afghan people and help them rebuild their country.

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• Telecasting Codec: x264
  
• Video Bitrate: 3227 kbps
  
• Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1
  
• Video Resolution: 1280x720
  
• Framerate: 29.97 fps
  
• Audio Codec: AAC
  
• Oftenness Bitrate: ~155 kbps 48/24 KHz
  
• Audio Channels: 6
  
• Audio Language: English
  
• Run-Time: 1:26:41
  
• Size: 2.04 GB
  
• Source: 1080i OTA ATSC
  
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