'Baghdad ER': Blood, Guts and Glory in Iraq

Fresh Air

Published April 13, 2007 at 11:00 AM EDT

Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill recently won a coveted Peabody Award for their documentary Baghdad ER, which takes viewers inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital, the U.S. Army's primary medical facility in Iraq. Sometimes unflinchingly graphic in its reportage, the film tells the stories of the hospital's doctors and wounded soldiers.

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