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Filmmakers Risked Their Lives to Shoot 'Restrepo'

6:44 PM PST 1/12/2011 by Alex Abramovich

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger survived Afghanistan and then the film business for their documentary, which pays off in award nom.

To get to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, where the bulk of their documentary Restrepo was filmed, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger would fly to Dubai or India, then to Kabul, before taking a car or taxi 90 minutes north to Bagram Airfield.

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