Photos: Making 'The War Tapes'

This view of an M1 Abrams tank, Humvee and other vehicles was shot through binoculars on a supply route north of Taji, Iraq. A central piece of "The War Tapes" is house-to-house fighting in the battle for the city of Fallujah.

The film runs to just 97 minutes, but it is the product of 800 hours of footage from the soldiers in Iraq and an additional 200 hours gathered by Scranton and her U.S.-based crew. "The unseen collaborator on the film is the internet," the filmmakers say on their Web site. "This is a Web 2.0 outside the wire--the intimate power of the internet exploding on the movie screen."

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Five soldiers from the 172nd Infantry Regiment (Mountain) filmed the yearlong deployment. "The War Tapes" focuses on three of them, including Sgt. Zach Bazzi, seen here training an Iraqi policeman. "I took one of the cameras because it was like, wow, cool, free camera, a $1,500 piece of equipment," Bazzi told the Boston Globe.

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The third of the three soldiers, Sgt. Steve Pink, films a roadside scene in front of a couple Humvees and one of the ubiquitous Toyota pickup trucks in the region. From the "War Tapes" Web site: "The unit was based at LSA Anaconda in the deadly Sunni Triangle, under constant threat of ambush and IED attacks. They traveled, as a unit, 1.4 million miles during their tour, and lived through over 1,200 combat operations and 250 direct enemy engagements."

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Left to right: Moriarty, Scranton, Bazzi and Pink, out of harm's way.

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The poster for "The War Tapes." A trailer for the film can be seen here.

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