Restrepo (film)

Restrepo
Directed byTim Hetherington
Sebastian Junger
Produced byTim Hetherington
Sebastian Junger
CinematographySebastian Junger
Tim Hetherington
Jake Clennell (Italy Interviews)
Edited byMichael Levine
Distributed byNational Geographic Entertainment
Release dates
  • January 21, 2010 (2010-01-21) (Sundance)
  • June 25, 2010 (2010-06-25) (United States)[1]
Running time
93 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1,436,391 (worldwide)[3]

Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger. It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair,[4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. The Second Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign, PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo, who was a Colombian-born naturalized U.S. citizen.[5] The directors stated that the film is not a war advocacy documentary, they simply "wanted to capture the reality of the soldiers."[6]

  1. ^ "Restrepo – Theatrical Release". International Documentary Association. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  2. ^ "Restrepo (15)". British Board of Film Classification. September 20, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  3. ^ "Restrepo (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
  4. ^ Into the Valley of Death, Sebastian Junger, Vanity Fair, January 2008 article, discusses the strategic value of the Korengal Valley.
  5. ^ An up-close yet impersonal look at war, Wesley Morris, Boston Globe movie review.
  6. ^ "'Restrepo' Directors: Why It's All War ... No Politics Allowed". TheWrap. July 1, 2010. Retrieved April 19, 2021.