''Taking Fire'' is a documentary series produced for
Discovery Channel in which members of the
101st Airborne Division filmed their deployment in Afghanistan largely through the use of
helmet camera
A helmet camera, otherwise known as a micro video camera, is an action camera, usually a closed circuit television camera, attached to a helmet allowing someone to make a visual record from their point of view ( POV), while keeping their hands and ...
s and
hand-held cameras. The filming took place in the
Korangal Valley; in order to avoid compromising mission integrity, the United States military reviewed all footage of the series prior to its publication by Discovery. The documentary captured video of American soldiers in combat against the
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...
in the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as well as descriptions from members of the 101st Airborne regarding their comrades
killed in action and the military operations in which the Division participated.
References
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Discovery Channel original programming
Documentary films about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Film series introduced in 2016
Films set in the Korangal Valley
2010s war films