By 
Deborah Scranton
 | 
TED Stage Talk

An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers

Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq.

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