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from the issue of November 10, 2005
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Film offers soldiers' perspective of Iraq war
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Soldiers are taking the lead at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
![](http://www.unl.edu/unlpub/graphics/transpixel.gif) On Veteran's Day (Nov. 11), the Ross will premiere "Occupation: Dreamland," a documentary that follows a squad of American soldiers deployed in the Iraq city of Fallujah in the winter of 2004.
![](http://www.unl.edu/unlpub/graphics/transpixel.gif) According to Joshua Land, film critic with Village Voice, directors Garrett Scott and Ian Golds have produced "a fair-minded, hardly political, grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions."
![](http://www.unl.edu/unlpub/graphics/transpixel.gif) The film documents Falluja's waning stability before a final series of military assaults in the spring of 2004, which effectively destroyed the city.
![](http://www.unl.edu/unlpub/graphics/transpixel.gif) Scott and Olds were given access to all operations of the Army's 82nd Airborne, giving voice to soldiers held under a strict code of authority as they cope in an ambiguous, often lethal environment. The result is a revealing, sometimes surprising look at Army life, operations and the complexity of American war in the 21st Century.
![](http://www.unl.edu/unlpub/graphics/transpixel.gif) "Occupation: Dreamland" is showing at the Ross, Nov. 11 to 23. Showtimes are available online www.theross.org or by calling the film information line at 472-5353.
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ARTS HEADLINES FOR NOVEMBER 10
Sheldon to renew tradition
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Film offers soldiers' perspective of Iraq war
Free at 6 features local blues musician
Multi-city film festival plays at the Ross
Olson Seminar examines Kimball and the alumni organ
Transgender film festival Nov. 18
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