21 Days to Baghdad - National Geographic DVD

[Beloved Shiv]

'Saw this disc at Sam's today - anyone already viewed the piece? Worth buying (interviews, infantry and armor up-close, specwar)?

[budanski]

I saw a book at Barnes and Noble I believed was called that. It was mostly photographs. Not as good as the Time/Life books on WW2. The images in the book I saw were shot with digital cameras which i find poor in quality.

[Zach R.]

Ehh, if I recall, Peter Arnett was shooting a National Geographic episode in Iraq at the time of his stupid little thing he did in Baghdad(Ya know, interviewing Saddam, telling him the coalition was bogged down, he was winning the war, yadayadayada). My advice, spend it on something else(Duh).

[Beloved Shiv]

'Always appreciate input in the forums, however I was actually looking for input from someone who'd seen the actually video.

I did grab it, Peter Arnett had nothing to do with any of the project, it has some great spots of MEUSOCs training on deck, fast roping, Army infantry in the streets and alleys, some aerial footage but overall rather stock and nothing as dramatic or intriguing as most of the stills housed on this site.

Will I pawn it off? No, I'll keep it. Will I cherish it as a solid war record or gritty unit-level expose, unlikely.

[Merik]

What all of the war does it exactly have? Like film from the camera crews embedded with the units that fed live footage during the war?

[Beloved Shiv]

What all of the war does it exactly have? Like film from the camera crews embedded with the units that fed live footage during the war?

Some, yes. Street-level footage of infantry deploying down alleys, prepping M240 and M4s, some SOCOM units perferating targets on board their deployment craft, gun camera footage from jet fighters, some Rumsfeld press conferences, great footage of our fav-o-rite Information Minister ("They are sick in the minds for these speaches!"). No in-your-face gun battles though.