When author Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) and award-winning photographer Tim Hetherington decided to spend a year in the Korengal Valley with a platoon of U.S. soldiers, they knew they were entering one of the world’s most dangerous combat zones. Their goal was simple and yet extraordinary — make a movie that places the viewer smack-dab in the middle of a war zone. The result is an immersion unlike anything you’ve experienced before. Free of pundits and generals, it shows the alternating boredom and mania, punctuated by the blistering intensity of battle. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Restrepo is a feat of bold, uncompromising filmmaking and sure to be one of this year’s most talked-about movies. (DW)