Brothers at War

Name: Brothers at War
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: March 13, 2009
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Isaac Rademacher, Jake Rademacher

2009

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Samuel Goldwyn Company, The | Release Date: March 13, 2009 | R

Starring: Isaac Rademacher, Jake Rademacher

Summary: Brothers at War is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake’s exploits as he risks everything—including his life—to tell his brothers’ story. Often humorous, but sometimesBrothers at War is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience, sacrifice, and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake’s exploits as he risks everything—including his life—to tell his brothers’ story. Often humorous, but sometimes downright lethal, Brothers at War is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to U.S. and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border, into sniper "Hide Sites" in the Sunni Triangle, through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army. Ultimately, the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents, siblings, wives and children. Brothers at War provides a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the frontlines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Expand

Director: Jake Rademacher

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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Roger Ebert

An honest, on-the-ground documentary about the lives of Americans fighting there. It has no spin. It's not left or right. Read full review

Kyle Smith

This documentary, which begins at a low key, gradually becomes intense and psychologically complicated. Read full review

J.R. Jones

It's the epitome of an embedded war report, though Rademacher's at-ease scenes with the soldiers have some of the warmth and terse humor of Ernie Pyle's, and there's some hair-raising footage of a machine-gun firefight. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

He does accomplish his main task, to take us into places civilians rarely go, and give witness to the immense challenges soldiers like his brothers face every second they’re required to be at war. Read full review

Elias Sevada

Harrowing, heroic, and occasionally gripping. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Provides some interesting perspectives but also veers dangerously close to vanity project. Read full review

Vadim Rizov

I can, however, object to the bathetic, misty score and the endless close-ups of American babies to remind us "what we're fighting for"--and to the filmmaker's belief that support for our troops and support for their mission are one in the same. Just because Rademacher believes his film to be "non-partisan" does not make it so. Read full review

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