Viewed "Restrepo" last evening....it's the Oscar nominated documentary about a lone firebase on an isolated hilltop in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan.

Riveting stuff...never viewed anything like it b/4.

A little background from NBC News about the area...and a short trailer from the film.

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Reported today...Paul Hetherington...director of the Oscar nominated film and his camera man Chris Hondros... were both killed in Libya during a mortar attack in the city of Misrata.....:rip:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/tim-hetherington-chris-hondros-killed-libya_n_851558.html