Documentaries on modern/current warfare

[JayPee]

Do you know of any? Feel free to share...

 

I'm looking for stuff like:

 

Restrepo

Armadillo

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (3 series)

Bomb Patrol Afghanistan (2 series)

Surviving the Cut (I recall one on EOD and one on USMC Scout Snipers)

[geert]

I think this one is a "must see":

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4SgEy2khOE

 

cheers

[Abburo]

How did the West find out about STOL performance of the Soviet aircraft?

This comes from a top secret recording describing what happened at a soviet cockpit during approach to JFK at IFR conditions:

Captain: “500 ft. low visibility, runway seems to be short. Co-pilot, lower flaps to 30 degrees…”

Co-Pilot: “Flaps down at 30.. check.”

Captain: “300 ft, low visibility, runway looks very short… Co-pilot, lower to 45 degrees !!!”

Co-Pilot: “Flaps down at 45…check.”

Captain: “100 ft !!! Runway very short !!! “Co-pilot, lower flaps to emergency – 90 degrees down!!!

Co-Pilot: “Flaps down to 90 degrees ready to land…check.” Aircraft lands and breaks immediately…

Captain: “*wipes off the sweets and sighs*… “Ohh they make the runways so short in the west….”

Co-pilot: “Yes…*points out the window*…but they are so wide…”

[Bushmanni]

Our War series by BBC. One of the grittiest I have seen. Material consists of footage shot by soldiers themselves and interviews of those soldiers.

[JayPee]

I think this one is a "must see":

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4SgEy2khOE

 

cheers

More of an interview setting compared to the ones I mentioned but worth it nevertheless!

 

By Youtubing it I also stumbled across Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan.

Edited January 22, 2014 by JayPee

[TimeKilla]

Loving this thread will post some when I get home tonight. :thumbup:

[Invader ZIM]

Not exactly and interview, but the ISAF soldier steps on a landmine, and the ensuing 30 minutes of the medics and medivac coming in to save him.

 

I've heard this video is now used for training because the medic did the right thing.

 

It's very graphic, when you see what a landmine does to a human being, and it's a war zone, so there's a lot of cussing as well, you were warned.

 

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/watch-your-step.htm

 

Scroll down on the link above to see the video.

[geert]

More of an interview setting compared to the ones I mentioned but worth it nevertheless!

 

By Youtubing it I also stumbled across Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan.

 

Yep, the only few times there´s some technical stuff (smartbomb stuff and interviews with some pilots for example) it is obviously meant to be very painfull to watch (at least to me it is), I guess that´s one of the obvious purposes of this doc. I guess you weren´t really looking for a doc like this, but it does fit the title of the topic perfectly :).

[Laurius]

Hi Jaypee,

 

Unfortunately Restrepo, Armadillo and Ross Kemp documentaries are no longer available on Youtube.

I saw all of them one year ago or so but they were removed because of copyright problems with channels that own them...

That's a problem with such kind of videos which I find very educational because they show how really things are, at least at the moment they are filmed. Especially for Ross Kemp series and some other, such as "Heroes of Hell Highway" about demining and "Inside Combat Rescue" series which illustrates the job of PJ's (Paramedic Jumpers) to cite few of them.

 

Otherwise, I don't know if you're looking for more specificaly Afghanistan or Irak documentaries but here are some links I have :

 

First, some on Afghanistan :

About winning hearts and minds :

 

 

The push to Bagdad-Iraqi Freedom :

 

 

About the formation of ANA (very touching at the end) :

 

(this one won't stay long on Youtube...)

 

About Jack, a British soldier :

 

About women on the front line in Afghanistan :

 

Now, some on Irak :

 

Fallujah :

 

Irak war - NG :

 

The push to Bagdad-Iraqi Freedom :

 

Ummm... I think I'm gonna stop here ;)

Cheers

Laurius

[JayPee]

Thanks, I'll be watching them during the evenings.