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Summary
Straight from the front lines in Iraq, THE WAR TAPES is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. These soldiers bypassed Pentagon supervised media to share their experience like never before.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+12)
Critics 88Audiences 76GoodWatch 81
Tomatometer98%
Metascore77
Audience score83%
User score7.3
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 37 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9697Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2006
October 22, 2006
20 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
ArabicMade in
- United States
Rated
- PGUnited States
Better for older viewers: it's rated PG in the United States, and the viewing guide lists it for adults.
Directing · 1
- Deborah Scranton Director
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