Restrepo (film)

Restrepo
Directed by	Tim Hetherington Sebastian Junger
Produced by	Tim Hetherington Sebastian Junger
Cinematography	Sebastian Junger Tim Hetherington Jake Clennell (Italy Interviews)
Edited by	Michael Levine
Distributed by	National Geographic Entertainment
Release dates	January 21, 2010 (2010-01-21) (Sundance) June 25, 2010 (2010-06-25) (United States)[1]
Running time	93 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,436,391 (worldwide)[3]

Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger. It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair,^[4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army. The Second Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign, PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo, who was a Colombian-born naturalized U.S. citizen.^[5] The directors stated that the film is not a war advocacy documentary, they simply "wanted to capture the reality of the soldiers."^[6]