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The Battle For Marjah (film)
''The Battle for Marjah'' is an HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ... documentary written, filmed and produced by Ben Anderson, covering the efforts of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment of the US military in Operation Moshtarak. References External links * * Documentary films about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) HBO documentary films 2010 films 2010s American films {{documentary-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Anderson (journalist)
Ben Anderson (born ) is a British journalist, television reporter, and writer. A recipient of the Foreign Press Award, he was born in Middlesbrough, educated at Bedford Modern School and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Biography In 2005, Anderson reported for ''Frontline Football'' – four films for the BBC that followed national football teams beset by turmoil during the qualifying rounds of the World Cup. In the previous year, he was a reporter on '' Holidays in the Danger Zone'' - The Violent Coast. This four-part series for BBC2 focused on travelling along West Africa's notoriously dangerous coast. Back in 2003, Anderson was a reporter on ''Correspondent - Terror in South East Asia'', which profiled Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's time in Manila with Ramsi Yousef, prior to the September 11 attacks. Anderson is known for ''Holidays in the Axis of Evil'', the BBC series in which he travelled secretly to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba. He also made films about gang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Wonke
Anthony Wonke is a film director. He is an Emmy and triple BAFTA winning director and an Oscar nominated and Emmy winning executive producer. He has also won, amongst other awards, the Prix Italia, Peabody, Grierson and RTS for his films. Wonke is known for his original feature documentaries ''Ronaldo'', ''Being AP'', '' Fire in the Night'' and ''The Battle for Marjah'' as well as his documentary series '' The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities''. Wonke's work ranges across a variety of genres always highlighted by intelligence, visual flair and emotional insight. His work has been shown at film festivals in the US, Canada, the Far East and the UK, as well as being televised on BBC 1, BBC 2, Channel 4 and HBO. Career In 2008, he was granted exclusive access to the female British Olympic Gymnastics squad, showing the hopes, joys and disappointments behind the Olympic dream. The resulting 90-minute documentary, ''Gymnast'', was broadcast on BBC2 in June 2012. In 2008, he won the BAFTA Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Battalion 6th Marines
The 1st Battalion, 6th Marines (1/6) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. It consists of approximately 1,100 marines and sailors. They fall under the command of the 6th Marine Regiment, the 2nd Marine Division of the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF). Subordinate units * Headquarters and Services Company – "Hawkeye" * Alpha Company – "Apache" * Bravo Company – "Black Foot" * Charlie Company – "Cold Steel" * Weapons Company – "Warrior" History World War I (1917–1919) Activated on 11 July 1917 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, as the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. 1/6 deployed to France from September to October 1917 and was assigned to the 4th Brigade, 2nd Division (Army), American Expeditionary Force. For the actions at Belleau Wood, Soissons, and Blanc Mont, the 6th Marine Regiment was awarded the French Croix de Guerre three times. As a result, the regiment is authorized to wear the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Moshtarak
Operation Moshtarak (Dari for ''Together'' or ''Joint''), also known as the Battle of Marjah, was an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) pacification offensive in the town of Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It involved a combined total of 15,000 Afghan, American, British, Canadian, Danish, and Estonian troops, constituting the largest joint operation of the War in Afghanistan up to that point. The purpose of the operation was to remove the Taliban from Marja, thus eliminating the last Taliban stronghold in central Helmand Province. The main target of the offensive was the town of Marjah, which had been controlled for years by the Taliban as well as drug traffickers. Although Moshtarak was described as the largest operation in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, it was originally supposed to be the prelude to a much larger offensive in Kandahar that would follow Moshtarak by several months. ISAF chose to heavily publicize the operation before it was launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBO Documentary Films
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television, premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side (Manhattan), West Side district. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of Art release#Film, theatrically released feature film, motion pictures and Original programming, original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert television special, specials, and periodic Interstitial television show, interstitial programs (consisting of short films and making-of documentaries). HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating subscription television service in the United States. HBO pioneered modern pay television upon its launch on November 8, 1972: it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Films
In the year 2010, there was a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of ''Avatar'' in the format, with releases such as '' Alice in Wonderland'', '' Clash of the Titans'', '' Jackass 3D'', all animated films, with numerous other titles being released in 3D formats. 20th Century Fox celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2010, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said: "At times it feels as if we’re living in something of a cinematic golden age, but one that’s altogether different from earlier halcyon days. Where some celebrate the former genius of the system to explain an earlier day’s proliferation of fine movies, now the system is something of a blunderer that often flings itself into follies or even crushes inspiration under its weight, but sometimes gets carried away, for reasons good or bad, and hands surprising control of vast resources over to ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
