[Imc-miami] "Baghdad ER" film Sat. 5pm, FIU South

[Paul Lefrak]

WHAT: "Baghdad ER" (2006, HBO Documentaries, 63 mins.)

WHEN: 5:00 PM, Saturday, Oct. 21

WHERE: Florida International Univ., University Park
(South) Campus, Graham Center, Room GC-140

WHO: Sponsored by Veterans for Peace and the
Bolivarian Youth.  Admission is free, but donations
gratefully accepted.

"Winner of four Emmy(R) Awards, including Outstanding
Directing for Nonfiction Programming (Jon Alpert,
Matthew O'Neill)! The 86th Combat Support Hospital
(CSH)-the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq
and formerly one of Saddam Hussein's elite
hospitals-is the setting for this unforgettable
documentary that puts a human face on the war's cold
casualty statistics. Directed by 11-time
Emmy(R)-winner Jon Alpert (HBO's One Year in a Life of
Crime), the film profiles the doctors and nurses at
the 86th who fight to save wounded soldiers who are
Medevaced (helicoptered) in on a numbingly routine
basis. In addition to capturing the drama of victims
and caregivers in the ER, the film provides vivid
frontline rescue footage with the 54th Medical Company
Air Ambulance Team along with tension-filled scenes of
soldiers patrolling what is considered the most
dangerous road in the world: the five-mile highway
from the Baghdad Airport to the CSH."

For more info about the film:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/baghdader/index.html

For directions to the FIU University Park Campus: http://www.fiu.edu/docs/campus_maps-up.htm