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Academy Award®-Winning Documentary Filmmakers
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WRITING:
BIRD BY BIRD: ANNE LAMOTT
RAY BRADBURY
WRESTLING WITH ANGELS
SCREENWRITERS:
CARL FOREMAN
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
PAUL MAZURSKY
ELEANOR PERRY
NEIL SIMON
ROBERT TOWNE
MUSIC:
AARON COPLAND PORTRAIT
NEVER GIVE UP: HERBERT ZIPPER
SING!
PORTRAIT OF ZUBIN MEHTA
TO BE A MUSICIAN SERIES
ARTISTS:
EYES OF DON BACHARDY
INTERREGNUM/GROSZ
MAYA LIN
MIRIAM WOSK
WORLD ACCORDING TO DORA
BIOGRAPHY:
LILLIAN GISH
LEGEND OF MARILYN MONROE
ROSE KENNEDY
MEDICINE:
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
TO LIVE OR LET DIE
WAR:
A TIME OUT OF WAR
RETURN WITH HONOR
WAR HUNT
LIBRARY FILMS:
INTO THE FUTURE
SLOW FIRES
THE JAPAN PROJECT:
MADE IN AMERICA
MADE IN JAPAN
MOVIES:
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, USA
LOS ANGELS
THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY

Fighting For Life

Directed by Terry Sanders
Executive Producer: Tammy Alvarez
89 Minutes


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Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary portrait of American military medicine interweaving three stories:
Fighting for Life
  • Military doctors, nurses and medics, working with skill, compassion and dedication amidst the vortex of the Iraq War.
  • Wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal.
  • Students at USU, the “West Point” of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.
The film follows 21 year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis, from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, as she fights to recover and “bounce back” from the loss of a leg.

The filmmakers had extraordinary access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights with wounded soldiers, and military hospitals in Germany and the United States.


Rave Reviews
"They are all heroes..."
Tom Hanks,
interview in Rolling Stone

"This is Americans at their best...marvelously uplifiting"
Robert MacNeil, journalist and TV news anchor,
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report

"Staggeringly affecting."
Nick Pinkerton,
The Village Voice

"...an unforgettable portrait of suffering, courage and resilience."
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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