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Where Soldiers Come From

Play trailer Poster for Where Soldiers Come From 2011,  1h 33m,  Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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Filmmaker Heather Courtney follows three lifelong friends, who joined the National Guard right after high school, from boot camp to Afghanistan.

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Steven Snyder TIME Magazine Nov 10, 2011
Director Heather Courtney's emotional and engrossing portrait of America's bravest. Go to Full Review
Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times Oct 7, 2011
2.5/5
A work that's less urgent and involving than its intense subject matter might have dictated. Go to Full Review
Tom Long Detroit News Sep 30, 2011
B+
Courtney avoids all political posturing here, something rare in modern war documentaries. These are the guys, American kids. This is the war, it's awful. And this is what happens. In your own backyard. Go to Full Review
Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 5, 2019
3/4
Its scope is both limited and intimate, a quality that is both to its credit and its detriment. But it is very much an essential document of the times we live in. Go to Full Review
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Nov 17, 2011
3.5/4
One of the more valuable and compassionate entries to date in the ever-expanding catalog of documentaries inspired by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Film Threat Sep 22, 2011
1.5/5
The young men at the center of the film have obnoxious personalities and it takes a great deal of patience to follow their journeys. Go to Full Review
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Heather Courtney

Director

Heather Courtney

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Heather Courtney

Producer

Megan Gilbride

Producer

David Hartstein

Producer

Heather Courtney

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Synopsis Filmmaker Heather Courtney follows three lifelong friends, who joined the National Guard right after high school, from boot camp to Afghanistan.
Director
Heather Courtney
Producer
Heather Courtney, Megan Gilbride, David Hartstein
Screenwriter
Heather Courtney
Distributor
International Film Circuit [us]
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 9, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 8, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$38.2K
Runtime
1h 33m
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