Combat Zone

Action-packed Television Documentary
CZ does a great job of giving you a good look at various firefights throughout modern history. Fights are recreated and intermixed with actual combat footage, and interviews with the guys who were actually on the ground doing the fighting. This is not your grandfathers war documentary. The show moves at a fast pace and is really focused more on the combat action itself. Similar to Battlefield 360, computer generated graphics supplement the narration and gives the viewer a good 360 degree view of the battlespace, which really offers a unique and clear perspective of how things unfold during a particular engagement. You get the entire series in single boxed set, so it's really a nice DVD series to own for any modern military history buff.

Watch and Appreciate the AMERICAN SOLDIER
Watch with amazement with live accounts , footage and reinactments of what the American soldier deals with in major military confrontation. Put down the video game and understand the costs of freedom. I really like the information this series provides. Our troops have always been amaxing people and this will show you why. MUST SEE ! and God Bless the USA

not a documentary, mostly hyped/faked re-enactments
This is not a documentary, and it is not a historical account. It is a hyped-up, made-for-TV series.

They group the episodes by certain battles, but they are not in any logical order. For any particular episode/battle, they show some real footage related to the location, but the footage is not related to that particular battle...it's just footage from the country location in general. The rest of the show is re-enactments and interviews.

The docudrama style re-enactments are obviously fake. There are a lot of shaky handheld re-enactment shots. They use a lot "attention grabbing" film techniques. They aren't telling stories here, they are making-up stories...and it seems the taller they can make the stories, the better. Checkout some scenes on youtube by searching for 7Y10FR4Vry4 or njbTLYSh1bM.

Five-star General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had this to say about war: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen...

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