Get ready to see the new face of American war. HBO presents this seven-part miniseries that focuses on the first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of the elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion. Based on Evan Wright's 2004 non-fiction book, the miniseries follows the First Recon Marine division as they gathered reconnaissance from behind enemy lines and led the attack on Iraq in March of 2003. watch
Get ready to see the new face of American war. HBO presents this seven-part miniseries that focuses on the first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of the elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion. Based on Evan Wright's 2004 non-fiction book, the miniseries follows the First Recon Marine division as they gathered reconnaissance from behind enemy lines and led the attack on Iraq in March of 2003. watch
I’ve already officially raved about HBO’s rivetingly realistic Iraq War miniseries Generation Kill, which begins its seven-week run tonight (9 pm/ET). Most every other critic I know is on board as well. But for David Simon, the revered creator of The Wire who helped shape journalist Evan Wright’s book into a you-are-there road trip with a unit of Marines that’s alternately hilarious and harrowing, the audience he was most interested in impressing were those in uniform.Last Wednesday night, on the eve of HBO’s presentation to TV critics at the ongoing TCA press tour, the producers and cast screened part of the miniseries for several hundred Marines at the Southern California base of Camp Pendleton. “The screening at Pendleton last night was probably the one that we cared about,” Simon said. “That was one, I think, we were all a little bit terrified of.” To which Wright, who was embedded with the troops on assignment for Rolling Stone, adde...read more