Combat Obscura

2019 • 70 minutes

About this movie

Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit's official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical initiatives. But upon discharging, Lagoze took all the footage he and his fellow cameramen shot, and he assembled quite simply the very documentary the Corps does not want you to see. COMBAT OBSCURA is a groundbreaking look at the daily life of Marines in a war zone as told by the soldiers themselves. More than a mere compilation of violence, the edit ingeniously repurposes the original footage to reveal the intensity and paradoxes of an ambiguous war from an unvarnished perspective.

Ratings and reviews

I have no idea why everyone is giving this just one star, personally i enjoyed the movie and found that it showed more about combat than youtube ever will. i will admit that it felt fairly short.

horrible!!!! I felt like this was just a bunch of YouTube clips put together into one long movie. weird angles alot of running with the camera just bad over all I could never get into the movie.

"dieser Film ist in deinem Land nicht verfügbar!" warum nicht? Ich lebe in Deutschland! warum werden mir diese Informationen vorenthalten? "this movie is not available in your country!" why not? i live in germany! why are those informations blicked for me?