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"Fighting for Life," from two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Terry Sanders, is a powerful documentary that tells the story of doctors, nurses and medics fighting to save the lives of soldiers and marines wounded and maimed in battle. It premieres tonight on NJN at 9:30 p.m. It will be released on DVD on Memorial Day, May 25.
This film only touches the surface of the thousands of lives impacted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Washington Post review: "A film that qualifies as essential viewing when partisan rhetoric and administration spin too often obscure the war's human cost. Sanders never flinches in showing the blood, viscera and immense suffering that too often remains on the cutting-room floor in the journalistic media."
The film also follows the personal story of 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, on her odyssey from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC, as she fights to recover from the loss of her leg.
Director Terry Sanders states, "We made a film not only about military medicine and the unsung healer-heroes of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but about the courage and spirit it takes to recover from serious injury.
" We were privileged to be trusted to share and film the deep emotions of the military doctors and nurses and to meet many of the wounded, including Iraqi wounded, to get to know their stories and their feelings, as they coped, both physically and emotionally with their situations."
John Anderson of Variety writes, "The only people who seem immune to the politics of the Iraq War are also at its epicenter: the doctors and nurses who mend and tend to the wounded, and who provide the heart and soul of Terry Sanders' "Fighting for Life." What's onscreen is among the most disturbing footage to come out of the Iraq cinema experience. Sanders and his crew probe relentlessly with their cameras, never recoiling from the most horrendous, bone-revealing injury, or from the long road of pain and disability ahead for most of the very young people on stretchers, or from the older but unjaded medical teams around them."
— ANDY LAGOMARSINO, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
