Veteran Nation, executively produced by Army veteran James Carafano, explores the treatment of veterans throughout decades of war. The documentary features inspirational interviews from veterans of all branches of the service and encourages community involvement to honor their sacrifice. James was inspired to make the film after learning about a community service group in Montana [...]

Bighorn, by Alfred Thomas Catalfo, is a supernatural/fantasy film that links two different events—Custer’s last stand in 1876 and the 2002 Super Bowl game. Many of Custer’s soldiers are played by re-enactors who are veterans, including one who served in the 7th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam. In 2002, the New England Patriots won their first [...]

John Bolton’s The Making of Fallujah is a behind- the-scenes look at the chamber opera Fallujah. In a series of flashbacks, the opera looks at the Iraq war and its aftermath through the eyes of Sgt. Christian Ellis, USMC. Sgt. Ellis suffered severe back injuries when his platoon was ambushed in Fallujah. John was inspired to make the [...]

Last Wednesday I traveled to foreign soil without ever leaving the United States of America. You may be asking yourself, “How is that possible?” Well, it’s entirely possible when you’re spending time in our great nation’s capitol! The Canadian Embassy hosted another GI Film Festival Event in which I was given the gracious opportunity to [...]

In honor of the film,  “The Real Inglorious Bastards,” one of 2013′s Official Selections for the GI Film Festival, I thought it would be very fitting to examine one of Hollywood’s more acclaimed movies depicting the struggle to take down history’s most formidable regime – the Nazi Party. ” The 2009 release of Quentin Tarantino’s [...]