Armadillo
Season 24 Episode 9 | 1h 27m 4s
2012 Emmy nominee for Best Documentary. Danish soldiers fight the Taliban in Afghanistan
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.
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Armadillo
Season 24 Episode 9 | 1h 27m 4s
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.
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Preview: S24 Ep9 | 2m 28s | Danish soldiers fight the Taliban in Afghanistan (2m 28s)
Filmmaker Interview: Armadillo
Clip: S24 Ep9 | 25m 47s | Janus Metz talks about filming his war documentary 'Armadillo.' (25m 47s)
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