Tattooed Under Fire

Documentary

56 min.

Tattooed Under Fire is a grippingly intimate, character-driven portrait of Iraq-bound and returning US soldiers as they go under the tattoo needle – openly professing their pride, sharing their secrets and confessing their fears.

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The tattoos cross lines of gender, class, and political affinity revealing the inner lives of young men and women as they live through the horrors of the Iraq war. The film’s narrative moves from the early expectations and excitement of 18- and 20-year-olds through cynicism and anger to a sense of a psychological aftermath that will never be erased. Each soldier’s story is an evocative, poignant, and highly personal look at the human and cultural cost of war.

  • Director

    Nancy Schiesari

  • Produced by

    Infocus Preductions and ITVS

  • Format

    56 min.

  • Release

    2008