Previews + Extras
Armadillo - Trailer
S24 E9 - 2m 28s
In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier.
Filmmaker Interview: Armadillo
S24 E9 - 25m 47s
Janus Metz, the filmmaker behind the Danish war documentary 'Armadillo,' talks about filming his documentary on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan. He describes the psychological effects of war on the people who experience it firsthand, and addresses the controversial incident which has garnered plenty of attention for the film.
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