HDNET World Report: SOLDIER STORIES

Nationally Broadcast on HDNET

ROBBIE LEPPZER - Director, Producer, Interviewer, and Editor

Running Time: 44:53

        In this special documentary segment, produced for HDNet World Report, a weekly hour-long newsmagazine program, broadcast nationally on HDNet, five U.S. combat veterans share their riveting personal accounts from the frontlines of the Iraq War.

        In the first part of SOLDIER STORIES, these veterans describe what led them to join the military and what it was like for them to engage in combat in Iraq. They speak graphically about the brutal realities of the war on the ground and it’s impact on fellow U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.  They describe harrowing ordeals where they didn’t know friend from foe, where civilians caught in the middle all too often paid the ultimate price.

        The second part of SOLDIER STORIES portrays these same veterans on the streets of Washington, DC in their current activism both for and against the Iraq War.  Members of Iraq Veterans Against The War are shown engaging in guerrilla street theater and marching to the Pentagon calling for an end to the war, while members of Vets For Freedom are filmed lobbying their Congressional representatives to continue the Iraq mission.

        SOLDIER STORIES is a stirring testimony about the human consequences of war from those who have experienced it first-hand. Filmed in HD.

About The Filmmaker

        Robbie Leppzer is an award-winning independent documentary director, producer, videographer, editor, and sound recordist, with thirty years experience producing over thirty independent film, video, and public radio documentaries for national and international distribution. His critically acclaimed works about contemporary social issues and multicultural themes have been broadcast globally by CNN International and broadcast nationally in the United States and Canada by PBS, CNN, Cinemax, Sundance Channel, HDNet, Black Entertainment Television, The Learning Channel, Link TV, Free Speech TV, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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