There's a 1 and a half hour episode tonight about a BBC crew living with coalition forces in last November and December. I believe it's on at 8 central time but I couldn't check because the PBS website pbs.org seems to be down. Anyone else planning on watching?

I watched it already... I think it's online... I'll go check.

 

This is the one I watched. --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/company/view/

 

Here's an hour long one that I missed called "a soldiers heart" -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/view/

 

Lots of shows can be streamed online, here's Frontline's homepage -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

Yup you're right A Company of Soldiers had been on previously but I obviously missed it. I watched it tonight though and it was pretty interesting. What got me most was when at a newly set up checkpoint (2 soldiers and a humvee), a car began approaching down an off ramp towards the checkpoint. When the car got within around I'd say around 300 yards they fired a warning shot. But no more than a second after the warning shot the other soldier gave the order to begin firing. They claimed that in that second after the warning shot the car began to speed up! And the soldier just drilled into the car. You could see it start smoking and then high tailed in backwards up the ramp. I can now see how easy the situation with the Italian reported could have happened.

 

Also a funny quote in the show

 

Soldier #1: Who would bomb a church?

Soldier #2: Muslims.

 

I believe I've seen a soldier's heart as well but for some reason my internet doesn't want to open those links up so I can check if I have seen it. Those links work for anyone else?

The only thing that got me was when the "doctor" shot the dog... I wanted to reach through the TV and punch that f***er in the nuts.

The only thing that got me was when the "doctor" shot the dog... I wanted to reach through the TV and punch that f***er in the nuts.

 

Yah it wasn't exactly Cujo.

I heard there was a movie coming out called "Gunners Palace" or something like that which was supposedly a no-bs 1st hand account of the action over there as it happened and told by those living it. I totally want to see that one.

I heard there was a movie coming out called "Gunners Palace" or something like that which was supposedly a no-bs 1st hand account of the action over there as it happened and told by those living it.  I totally want to see that one.

 

Sure is, check out the trailer using quicktime

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/...palace-tlr.html