High Ground

Name: High Ground
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 2, 2012
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Brian Mockenhaupt, Dan Sidles, Katherine Ragazzino, Matt Nyman, Steve Baskis

2012

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Virgil Films & Entertainment | Release Date: November 2, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Brian Mockenhaupt, Dan Sidles, Katherine Ragazzino, Matt Nyman, Steve Baskis

Summary: Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to heal the emotional and physical wounds of theEleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S. history. (Red Flag Releasing)… Expand

Director: Michael Brown

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Kenneth Turan

Nov 1, 2012

In its ability to let us hear firsthand what life-and-death combat does to the human body and spirit, this film has few peers. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Nov 1, 2012

From its low-key, guitar-based score by composer Chris Bacon to the filmmaker's refusal to sugar-coat the tough times some of the soldiers faced after completing the climb, High Ground takes its cues from the worldview of its subjects. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Nov 1, 2012

Michael Brown (a renowned mountaineer), digs below the adventure itself to reveal the gaping holes in our veteran care. Doing so, he translates a collage of experiences - some desperate, some hopeful, all tragic - into a first-person commentary on the malign reverberations of war. Read full review

John DeFore

Nov 1, 2012

Some of these trekkers are more resilient than others, but all seem to agree there's a high, maybe insurmountable barrier between them and civilians. However sympathetic we are, they say, we can hardly understand what they've been through. High Ground makes that difficult task a little easier. Read full review

Ian Buckwalter

Nov 1, 2012

What emerges as the film goes on is that the things military service provided for many of these individuals - family, friends, camaraderie, a support network of other like-minded individuals willing to lay down their lives for them - is the exact thing that has been taken away by their injuries, leaving them feeling particularly isolated. The climb provides them with that sense of community once again. Read full review

Ty Burr

Nov 1, 2012

A less than inspiring documentary about extremely inspiring individuals, High Ground is worth seeing for what it shows rather than how it shows it. Read full review

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