Generation Kill

I am not a big fan of war movies. There are only few that i quite enjoy watching. Such as the Letters of Iwojima, Flags of Our Father and Valkyrie. But recently i found one that i really really like: Generation Kill.

Generation Kill is a HBO miniseries based on a book with the same title written by Evan Wright. He was a journalist for the Rolling Stones embedded with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the US Marine Corps in Iraq War on Terror. To make things simpler, the following is HBO's synopsis of the series:

"Based on the award-winning nonfiction account of the same name by Evan Wright, the journalist embedded in the lead Humvee of First Recon’s Bravo Company’s Second Platoon, the miniseries is a precise retelling of the early weeks of the military campaign from the point of view of the guys on the ground: the non-commissioned officers and platoon-level commanders who led the way to Baghdad.

Real events are depicted. Real names are used. As much as possible, the film employs the precise dialogue reported by Wright, a Rolling Stone correspondent assigned to First Recon Battalion during their last weeks in Kuwait. The filmmakers made every effort to recreate Wright’s account of Bravo Two Marines riding from the Kuwait border into the slums of Baghdad."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938873/the_killer_elite/