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Special Film Screening: Korengal

Acclaimed writer and journalist Sebastian Junger returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for a special screening and discussion of his new film, Korengal.

Picking up where Restrepoleft off, Korengal follows the men of Battle Company 2/503 during and after their service in the Korengal Valley from 2007-08. Featuring never-before-seen footage from the War in Afghanistan, Korengal offers a different perspective on war, focusing on the psychological effects on the young men who go into battle.

New York-based writer and journalist Sebastian Junger first ventured into film with the documentary Restrepo, which he shot and directed with colleague Tim Hetherington. Restrepo chronicles one year at an American combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan; the film won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best documentary and was also nominated for an Oscar® and an Independent Spirit Award.

Junger’s accompanying book, War, spent over a month on the New York Times bestseller list. Junger’s next film, Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, was a moving portrait of the acclaimed war photographer and his Restrepo co-director that premiered on HBO and was nominated for a PGA award and was short-listed for an Oscar® in the Best Documentary Feature category. Junger’s books include The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont.

Junger first reported from Afghanistan in 1996 and, four years later, was one of the last Westerners to accompany legendary guerrilla fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud during his war against the Taliban. Junger has reported for Vanity Fair, where he is a contributing editor, from many war zones across the world: he was trapped in Monrovia during the Liberian civil war in 2003, caught in Sierra Leone during the civil war of 2000 and very briefly held by “oil rebels” in the Niger Delta in 2006. His October 1999 article in Vanity Fair, “The Forensics of War,” won a National Magazine Award for Reporting. Junger’s next project as a director is The Last Patrol, which is set to premiere on HBO at the end of 2014.