"Full Battle Rattle" follows the training regimen of one battalion during engagement and occupation in one of 13 fake "villages." A so-so pic on an incendiary subject, “Full Battle Rattle” follows the ...

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Iraqi Khalid Al-Khafaji plays war. The epitome of brutal realism, war on the ground is the subject of elaborate fantasy in two deceptively modest, highly self-conscious films, Tony Gerber and Jesse ...

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Watching the coolly ironic documentary Full Battle Rattle, one’s heart goes out to Lieutenant Colonel Robert McLaughlin as he sits in a daze in front of his desert headquarters, having seen most of ...

Watching the coolly ironic documentary Full Battle Rattle, one’s heart goes out to Lieutenant Colonel Robert McLaughlin as he sits in a daze in front of his desert headquarters, having seen most of ...

Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber’s documentary, Full Battle Rattle, may seem like “just another Iraq war doc” but it’s not. In fact, not a single frame of the film was shot in Iraq. The film instead follows ...

One soldier tellingly calls his training in the Mojave Desert "one big reality TV show," and the movie never makes clear whether such training does any good. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press ...