Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

valleyjohn Before seeing this documentary i had never heard of Pat Tillman. Tillman was the all American hero . A pro American football player who gave up his million dollar contract to fight for his country. The problem was that things are never always that simple in The United States.One day while out on patrol , Tillman and his group came under fire and he was shot in the head and killed. The family was that they had a fire fight with Afghan soldiers and that was how Pat had lost his life but it didn't take long to find out the the military were lying. Tillman had been killed by friendly fire.Lets face it it's no surprise that the military and the US government covered this up. They are both institutions that are rotten to the core. What is so amazing is how nonchalant these people are about this cover up and that the cover up went all the way to the top .The film has interviews with the family and his friends and it shows the amazing length this brave family went to get justice. It shows real footage of the memorial service for Tillman and the wonderfully honest speech his younger brother gave. If i had one criticism it would be that the documentary is not confrontational enough but i suppose when your dealing with corrupt weasels like Donald Rumsfeld you have to be a bit cautious.

Robert J. Maxwell Pat Tillman was a college football hero who turned down a multimillion dollar contract in order to join the army after 9/11 because he thought "it was the right thing to do." He was accidentally shot and killed by friendly fire and turned into a hero by the government.Two features of the story are more interesting than others. One is that, when a celebrity like Tillman dies in battle, the agents who manage information -- in this case, the government and the media -- can't treat it as just another incident, let alone an accident in which he mistakenly had his head literally shot off by his own team mates.Instead, the death must become heroic. It must he the death of Hector, not just some poor schmuck. It's interesting to see just how this transfiguration was carried out by the military and the news. The athlete didn't die by fratricide after all. He died in battle against the enemy. Tillman is awarded a medal, the cameras are on the family's lawn hours after the death is made public, the number of his football jersey is retired in a formal ceremony, a bronze statue of Tillman in an ecstatic pose is built.War needs heroes. They don't even have to die. To be selected for inclusion in the mythos they should ideally be young and attractive. Such a fiction was built around Jessica Lynch, a soldier who was hurt in a vehicular accident and cared for in a civilian hospital. The military could have walked in at any time and gently removed her but the retrieval was delayed for an hour or so while a photographic team was assembled to record the "rescue", in which armed soldiers burst through the doors in full battle dress. She was lionized for the "fierce battle" she'd been in, although she'd never fired a shot nor been hit by a bullet.But Tillman's family isn't quite satisfied. (Pat's younger brother was in the same unit nearby.) His father is a lawyer and sends letters to people with juice asking for something other than eulogies and vague generalizations about Pat's bravery and patriotism. The government has done its best to restructure the incident and then to discourage the family from further demands. They bury the Tillman family in documentation, a common technique known as "drowning". Thousand upon thousands of xerox documents, with half the test redacted and crossed out with black. Includes are autopsy reports, maps of the terrain, and climatic data. One glance at these many volumes would make anyone throw up his hands -- except, perhaps, a lawyer and his bereaved wife. They put together something resembling the real story, which is rather like doing an extremely difficult crossword puzzle, filling in the redacted name here with a name taken from elsewhere. Gradually the fiction is eroded and Pat's death by friendly fire becomes apparent. We hear a recorded conversation between two of the manipulators of the mythos: "The family isn't religious, so it's hard for them to get their heads around. To them he's worm dirt." And that's the second interesting feature of the film. Neither Pat Tillman nor his family fit the required template of the ideal American family producing the patriotic hero willing to die for his country.You haven't met many people like Pat Tillman. He's an affable guy, a Byronic open-minded self tester who wants to try everything. He leaps from cliffs. He plays hard. He drinks beer. He's an atheist. He's enraged by the attacks of Al Qaeda. He reads the Book of Mormon and Noam Chomsky. He knows who Ralph Waldo Emerson is. He curses rapturously. As a Ranger, when he's given an order he thinks is stupid, he replies, "That's f****** stupid." Ditto for the family. Some Senator gets up on a podium as pulls a Pericles at Tillman's funeral service. He's home now and with God. Then we see Pat's brother saying, "He's not with God. He's f****** dead." The family's protests finally prompt an investigation by the Department of Justice. The head of one retired general is lopped off and the others involved in propagating the myth are excused, almost with apologies for the inconvenience cause by their having to testify.It's a spooky documentary that will restore anyone's lack of confidence in official announcements regarding any war we happen to be in at the moment. It's not uncommon for the media to be manipulated. As far as German civilians were concerned, Germany won every battle it was in -- right up to the surrender. Did you know Hitler was killed in battle? That's what civilians heard.There are lots of unanswered questions. They weren't left unanswered deliberately, I don't think. It's just that the writer and director didn't know the answers. Everyone who knew him adored Pat Tillman. Okay, but didn't he have ANY flaws? If he did, we never hear about them. And the family (and, by inference, the director) have misunderstood some of the documentation. One typed line is shown from a soldier who shot at Tillman's group. When asked why he didn't stop shooting or simply take cover until the target was identified, he states: "I wanted to stay in the fire fight." Tillman's mother interprets this as an eagerness to shoot wildly at anything. That's not how I would interpret it.

imizrahi2002 and even though people might be moved and/or outraged, it's not like that ever stopped what moves the human animal to do this sort of stuff. people here at IMDb have already written something to the effect that there is truth and then there's the government's truth. that's been true not only of the US govt, but pretty much all govts, when looked at from a certain perspective. and, yes. the US govt is no exception...in fact, it may set new standards in the atrocity cover up dept. but i'll leave that as a response to other documentaries... if you'd like a better idea of what the US govt has done since its inception, i'd advise reading howard zinn's 'a people's history of the united states'. it's a real eye opener. i don't usually like history(maybe b/c, even as a child, i intuited the lies being told), but this book was one of the best(of any genre)i've ever read. and, yes, it's 'biased'. what piece of information ever passed on isn't? but you can decide for yourself how much of it feels truthful. esp in light of America's actions these days. what one needs to understand, basically, is that alpha animals are willing to do whatever it takes to stay alphas. anything it takes includes a lot of things we, generally, consider immoral. but it's 'business as usual'. and the need to control that business/investment. it's done, as i said, worldwide. large companies not only have a large influence on policy making, they, pretty much, dictate policy making. AND, their leaders, as recently seen with wall street and investment bankers, are beyond/above the law. like it or not they ARE the law. i would imagine an effective protest might be to withhold taxes, if large groups of people did so... good luck to those of you with consciences who want to make humane changes. i say this without a bit of sarcasm or failure prejudice implied.

garak99-705-686013 The Tillman Story - For a documentary this was a captivating film. It tells the story of professional NFL player Pat Tillman who left behind a Multi Million Dollar contract to join with his brother Kevin to enlist in the US Army's Rangers. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev it tells the story of a mission in Afghanistan when Tillman was shot in the head. The Military and US government initially said that Tillman was killed in heroic fashion in a firefight with the Taliban members of his platoon were given orders not to reveal what happen even to his brother Kevin who was at the tail end of the convoy. But little by little with lots of questions by his family especially his mom the truth finally came out as to what happen. Although evidence of who knew and how far the cover-up appears to have went all the way to The Bush White House only one 3 Star General was made a scapegoat . Pat knowing that because he was a high profile name that the military would want to use as a recruiting tool if something ever were to happen left written instructions that he did not want a military funeral. The military tried to push the family into signing onto one they refused and he did not have one. It is amazing to think that the US government and military would go to this length to cover-up a friendly fire incident but the United States government like all the worlds government's is Corrupt and there call for patriotism is as corrupt. I believe before any country commits to a war it should be required to read THE WAR PRAYER by Mark Twain (Look it up really read it). Pat was not religious he was a atheist at his funeral service his brother Rich said " Pat isn't with God he's F*****g Dead He wasn't religious but thank you for thoughts but he's F*****g Dead" Go see this Film