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“Being in the Marine Corps, I have met a group of people from all over the world that are willing to die for each other and they allowed me to document their experience. I think that is the greatest honor and I couldn’t ask for more. I see Marines as a big family, they are all my brothers,” Tamba said. |
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There are many Iraq War documentaries on the market, but few are as exciting and honest as “Triangle of Death,” directed by first time filmmaker Marine CPL Folleh Tamba. Triangle of Deathshares the story of the marines of Echo Company 3rd Platoon as they endured life changing experiences, fought a war, trained a nation’s army, endured daily mortar and sniper fire, and managed to survive a year in Iraq’s deadliest zone, the triangle of death. The marines of 2/24 worked together through these hardships to create the only outcome they could imagine in their world: Mission Accomplishment. |
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The film itself is something of an improbability. Get this: all of the combat footage was filmed by one man, Corporal Follah S. Tamba, a rifleman in Echo Company, who in addition to his other gear carried a small high-quality video camera. And what pictures he captured. Tightly edited together, The Triangle of Death it is like an extended fireworks display. The viewer is bashed by one astonishing image after another. Tamba was wounded midway through his deployment and had his first camera blown to bits by an IED. He got patched up, found a back-up camera and went right back into action. |
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Tamba was almost instantly skeptical about the way the war was being covered by the both the government and the press, especially after getting reports from his brother and sisters, all serving in different branches of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. They told him about many things that were going on in the region that was not being shown by the American media. |
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