In Country: why are real veterans playing war games?
Filmmaker Mike Attie and Iraq war veteran Lucien "Doc" Darensburg on what attracts grown man, including real veterans, to elaborate war games.
Why would grown men want to play war games? And what do the real veterans among them get out of it?
Filmmaker Mike Attie explores those questions in his new documentary In Country, which explores how Iraq war veterans confront difficult memories by participating in elaborate re-enactments of the Vietnam war. Attie and Iraq war veteran Lucien "Doc" Darensburg join Shad to explain the culture of war play and what it means to those who spend their weekends to fictional frontlines.
WEB EXTRA | Watch the trailer as well as a clip from In Country below.