Hard-hitting, uncompromising, thought-provoking, moving...those are just a few adjectives that describe this documentary about veterans from the Iraq War.

This is a hard film to watch, but it is an important film to watch. It's a documentary about military folks who served in the Iraqi War from their recruitment, to training, to serving (and killing), and coming home with both psychic and physical wounds. It is them, their voices, their pain, their forever changed lives. One likens recruitment to marketing of cigarettes: it used to be cool (Marlboro Man billboards) and now comes with a surgeon general's warning. The surgeon general doesn't warn anyone about how cool it is to become a Marine. Another talks about his field chaplain: The human body can live 72 hours without water, two weeks without food, and no time at all without hope.

This is a really disturbing story from the veterans of the Iraq war.

What an amazing story about what's really going on over there and how it affects lives.

What an amazing story about what's really going on over there and how it affects lives.

Interesting, but not engrossing.

This film was obviously made by a Liberal person...only showed one side of the war....Very anti-war.....Did not like it...Although I still have it in my heart to help veterans any way I can!

BUSH - you are really worse than Stalin and Hitler together.

It's sad that civilians are being tricked into becoming soldiers then fooled yet again when they get home from war and are denied care.

No doubt an invaluable document for the producers of "The Hurt Locker" and HBO's "Generation Kill"... One of this new film's strengths is precisely this ability to evoke, with great tact and subtlety, a wider historical perspective, to recognise that while the technologies and training have improved in the intervening period, the resources made available to the average soldier, and the pressures exerted upon him, remain very much unaltered. Worse still, in such a brute-force, macho environment, is how aftercare is sorely, and in several cases *fatally*, lacking - a cursory passing-out of surveys that brings the world no closer to knowing or treating post-traumatic stress disorders. Once you've been told - by your superiors, and your own frazzled mind - you are surplus to requirements, what do you do with that murderous rage that's been installed inside you, other than turn it back upon yourself. It's a tough watch, but - funded by various veterans' groups - one that has the soldiers' very best interests at heart. At 70 minutes, it's brisk enough not to induce compassion or combat fatigue, yet its most indelible images - whether dead bodies in the road, or returning soldiers embracing their loved ones - stay with you far longer than that.

I've read and heard about these post Iraq War stories and the shit ass psychiatric unit before, so it was really hard to get through "The Ground Truth". I give this documentary 5 stars, because the film is made entirely of interviews from the soldiers. The soldiers get to be heard. People who don't know that the military isn't like some cool video game or a fast way to raise money for college probably wouldn't have the attention span to watch this documentary either. Military needs to stop advertising itself in such ways. Those really long Army commercials played before trailers at theaters piss me off. I think the CEO of Carmike should watch this documentary.

Brutally frank & difficult to watch.

One-sided, but informative about experience and reality that you wouldn't hear about on the news in the comfort of your armchair.

No new ground is covered in the messages of war veterans now opposed to war and struggling to get the help they need to reacclimate back into society. Paraphrased quote from film: They weren't fighting for freedom or justice, they were fighting for their lives. And lost their humanity in the process.

It is a documentary that seems generic in its purpose and simply shows how terrible war is, but after awhile, you get attached to what the soldiers have to say, and that is the purpose of the film. Powerful and heartfelt.

"there's no higher freedom that can be achieved than the freedom we achieve when we follow our conscience. and that's something you can live by, and never regret."

This documentary is about soldiers in Iraq and their experiences on the battlefield and their life's after they return home and try to adjust to everyday life. This film exposes the lies and manipulation the Military recruiters use to get people to sign up, and how its not what they thought it would be like and how they are abandoned when they return home and many are wrote off as having personality disorders when really the experience from the war messed them up. Really nothing new in this film, its all been told before.

WARNING: A natural byproduct of joining the army is death, destruction, murder, fear and total emotional deterioration

really interesting and it makes u really think...

Very good doc on Soldiers after they came home from war. They Talk a lot about their experience of being in the Military. Show this film to anyone who wants to enlist.