The Western Front (film)

The Western Front
Directed by Zachary Iscol
Produced by
  • Radha Agrawal
  • Zachary Iscol
Written by Zachary Iscol
Starring
  • Zachary Iscol
  • Nick Fox
  • Abood Al Khafagee
  • Batrool Al Khafagee
  • David Kilcullen
  • John Nagel
Music by Robert Miller
Cinematography
  • Radha Agrawal
  • Bradford Young
Edited by Jiunn Kwon
Production
company
Zachary Iscol Productions

Film released: =

Country United States
Language English

The Western Front is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Zachary Iscol, produced by Radha Agrawal and Zachary Iscol and written by Zachary Iscol. The film debuted at the TriBeCa Film Festival. Zach Iscol is a combat decorated Marine officer, Iraq veteran and entrepreneur, who served as the first officer in charge of Recruiting, Screening, Assessment, and Selection for the U.S. Marine Corps Forces - Special Operations Command. He is the executive director of the Headstrong Project, as well as founder and CEO of Hirepurpose.

Plot

Based on the 2004 experience of Zachary Iscol, a US Marine who fought in Al Anbar, Iraq's most violent province. There, the inevitable result of violence was always more violence, until the Marine Corps eventually learned the unforgiving paradox of counterinsurgency-that killing is how you make enemies, not defeat them, and that peace is predicated upon working with former enemies. Zach returns to the province, now considered a counterinsurgency model, to confront the awful dilemmas he faced fighting an enemy that hid among civilians. The Western Front explores these dilemmas from all sides to reveal the harsh impact we had on our enemies, our allies, civilians, and our soldiers. Shot on location in Iraq, Iscol fuses haunting personal war stories with larger issues and makes for an affecting behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of war from a soldier's perspective.[1]

References

  1. ↑ https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/512d0ace1c7d76e046002ddb-western-front

External links

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