Based on actual events
More than 500 war reporters were killed in the last decade.
This film is dedicated to their memory.
Iraq - 2007
Defensive positions!
Call for medevac! Two urgent surgicals!
Look out! RPG at 12 o'clock!
Los Angeles - One year later
Tbilisi, Georgia - August 6, 2008
MrPresident, your cabinet members are here.
Independent News Center New York August 8, 2008
We do not have much down here,
but you are welcome to have it.
You must be hungry.
Clear them out!
Please have pity.
In the name of God.
It's all clear.
You idiot!
Come out or we'll kill you all!
Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
We're Ossetian!
We are friends!
This is all they had on them.
We found a second camera in the car.
I can make the women talk.
You will not touch my daughters!
They are Ossetians like me.
We are like you.
I am a Cossack, old man.
And the next time you raise your voice at me,
I will cut you open while your daughters watch.
Take the father first.
No, you can't do this!
If there is a video recording, we have to find it.
We don't need a PR nightmare like the Americans in Iraq.
Don't worry, we'll find it.
Sir, we just received word that the second invasion front has launched.
Good.
Papa, are you alright? Did they hurt you?
I'm alright, I'm alright.
They already know everything.
Where is the recording? Tell me!
Tatia, do not play games with me!
These men may be Ossetians,
but they will not wait forever.
May I begin, Colonel?
Hold on.
We must think of ourselves now.
Not two strangers!
You think they wouldn't leave us? They will abandon us like the world has!
Tatia, tell me where the recording is?
We can use them as shields!
No, I can't trust you.
Tatia, I'm your father...
They need my help.
No. You'll be safer with your friends.
Medic!
- Are you okay? - It's nothing... just my arm.
Medic I said!
Get them!
Get the vehicles started!
That guy's crazy.
Thank you.
You're abandoning your post?
By order of the President.
All troops are to fall back
and report to defend Tbilisi.
Gori is going to fall.
I'm sorry. I have my orders.
Friendlies!
Hold your fire!
Have you seen ground troops?
Hear that?
Defensive positions!
Move out!
Don't resist, Captain.
Sir, they're not resisting.
There's been enough killing.
The war lasted five days.
Several hundred people were killed, including five reporters.
An estimated 50,000 people were made homeless,
their villages permanently destroyed or occupied.
Many still live in refugee camps.
Despite demands from Europe and the United States to withdraw,
the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia remain occupied
by Russian forces.
Georgia continues its quest to integrate with the West.
My husband, Mikheil Taboshvili. Killed in Eredvi village.
My father.
My mother-in-law, Natalia Okropiridze.
My mother, Natalia Okropiridze.
As my parents were being evacuated and they were crossing the road,
a mine exploded in front of their car and shrapnel hit her straight in the temple.
She died on the spot.
Zambakhidze Tamar, my mother.
My wife.
Our grandmother.
My parents were tortured. Their throats were slit.
They were buried in our backyard, and that's all we know.
This is Nodar Otiashvili, my father.
We used to live in Kvemo Achabeti village.
I am the son of Socrate Gogidze.
I was told by the Red Cross
that he was buried in our garden.
He had been hanged.
I am Marina Kakhbiashvili. I used to live in Kehvi village.
On August 8th, we left.
My husband stayed there. My son and my husband.
My son left that night. My husband stayed in the house.
Ekaterine Papelishvili, my grandmother.