Synopsis
The Ground Truth stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals.
Hailed as “powerful” and “quietly unflinching,” Patricia Foulkrod’s searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker’s subjects are patriotic young Americans – ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq – as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all – the truth.
The Ground Truth stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals.
Hailed as “powerful” and “quietly unflinching,” Patricia Foulkrod’s searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker’s subjects are patriotic young Americans – ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq – as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all – the truth.
A Focus Features presentation of a Ground Truth production in association with Radioaktivefilm and Plum Pictures. A Film by Patricia Foulkrod. The Ground Truth. Original Music by Dave Hodge. Cinematographer, Reuben Aaronson. Editor, Rob Hall. Executive Producers, Jon Faiz Kayyem, Andrew Mysko, Louise J. Wannier, Jodie Evans, Dal LaMagna, Carl Linderum, Victor Scherb. Produced and Directed by Patricia Foulkrod. A Focus Features Release.
Cast & Crew
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Cast
Spc. Robert Acosta Sgt. Kelly Dougherty Demond Mullins 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff 1st Lt. Melissa Stockwell Sgt. Rob Sarra Spec. Aidan Delgado Ssgt. Jimmy J. Massey Cpl. Sean Huze HM2 Charles Anderson Lt. Col. David Grossman Army Rgr. Chad Reiber Robert Scaer, MD Spc. Denver Jones Medic, Perry O’Brien Sgt. Camilo E. Mejia Steve Robinson Ssgt. Brad Smelley Ssgt. Josh Forbess Joyce and Kevin Lucey Debbie Lucey Stan Goff Nickie Huze Michaela Smelley Mary Nguyen Jackie Massey Sandy Restrepo Ed Ellis Jim Driscoll Spc. Michael Blake |
Crew
Patricia Foulkrod Jon Faiz Kayem Andrew Mysko Louise J. Wannier Jodie Evans Dal LaMagna Carl Linderum Victor Scherb Rob Hall Reuben Aaronson Dave Hodge |

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