Shortlist, 2007, Best Documentary Feature Category, Academy Awards
Winner, 2006 BritDoc Film Festival, Best International Documentary
Winner, 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary
Official Selection, 2006 IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam)
Official Selection, 2006 Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Official Selection, 2006 Rome Film Festival
‘The War Tapes’ Provides a Soldier’s-Eye View of the Days Over There
A.O. Scott, New York Times
“The War Tapes, winner of the prize for best documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, proceeds from a simple, powerful idea…”
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Bryant Urstadt, Boston Globe Magazine
“Deborah Scranton gave soldiers video cameras and told them to shoot what they saw in Iraq. The resulting documentary, The War Tapes, is now blowing up back here at home.”
Cascading Inconvenient Truths
David Carr, New York Times Review
“…nothing in newspapers, on cable or even out there in the blogosphere matched the impact of a deft little turn in the middle of “The War Tapes,” a documentary about — and filmed by — a New Hampshire National Guard Unit stationed in Iraq that opened in theaters two weeks ago.”
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