Filmmaker Terry Sanders is offered unprecedented access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights, and military hospitals both in Germany and the United States for this documentary portrait of the American military medicine system. In addition to interweaving stories about American military medical workers forced to work against the chaotic backdrop of the Iraq War, the wounded soldiers whose lives have been forever changed in combat, and the USU medical students who strive to become
career military physicians, the film also traces the remarkable journey of 21-year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis as she travels from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., while attempting to spring back into action after losing a leg. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Fighting for Life puts courageous faces on men and women who might otherwise be anonymous statistics at a time when injured soldiers are rarely seen on TV.
Fighting for Life is essential viewing at a time when, five years on, the war's human cost is still too often mired in partisan rhetoric and administration spin.
Shot in battlefield hospitals in Iraq and rehab centers in the United States, Fighting for Life takes an unflinching look at the physical sacrifices of soldiers and marines.
The no-frills yet deeply gripping manner this film uses to document this brave soldier's struggle for survival, then in rehab, should draw a salute from military personnel and civilians as well.
Sanders provides a rare glimpse into the world of the doctors and nurses tasked with saving lives in difficult circumstances. You cannot leave Fighting for Life without a deep sense of respect for the medical personnel and the patients.
Though Maryland's Uniformed Services University has been dubbed "Useless U" and has come close to being shuttered, Terry Sanders' simply shot digital film is an inelegant but potent argument for its existence.
Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right.
Hollywood should either set up web cams in Iraq and Afghanistan or forget making movies. The real soldiers fighting for their lives are the returning veterans and not just those with post traumatic stress disorder. Only one movie as of this date has dared film the Iraq theatre in depth with servicemen and women
shooting footage and it was sponsored by religious organizations not commercial studios. For insight into how returning vets are treated and one who your letters could help see the web site www.freenestor.com. Even heroic plantoon leaders get falsely framed and arrested and end up fighting for their lives from behind bars. C'mon Holywood lets get real!
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