The Longest Month

The honest interviews of the pilots and ground crews involved make this documentary much more intimate than most, watching it you feel like you are talking with friends.

The Longest Month tells the story of the men and women fighting at the top of the spear - an Apache helicopter battalion - during the height of "the surge" in Iraq. These are important stories to be told and The Longest Month does it masterfully.

I've nothing against anyone in any military force. Still, I found the idea of anyone making the fight for a(ny nation's sovereignty into some quasi-mythical claptrap ridiculous, overbearing, and dangerous.

Fighting isn't anything to be proud of. The American revolutionaries who fought for the birth of the States didn't think anything like today's lunacy. They fought because they had to become free.

It might sound slightly cliché, but I'll take a quote from Captain of the Enterprise, James T. Kirk, who was trying to help destroy a supposed several-millennia-old creator of their society by leaving his intelligence but not his soul or compassion in the eponymously named 'Landreau' computer.

But when it was time for that final thrust to face Landreau, finally, whatever it might be, the two people of the planet suddenly became hesitant. Reticent.

Captain Kirk said one must fight for freedom, which isn't freely given.

That's more in the spirit of fighting for one's freedom I'm referring to.

The French who overthrew their monarchy, and, even when the Soviet Union collapsed, that's exactly what those Russians who wanted to maintain freedom did when they fought the remaining old communist oligarchy who decided to stage an overthrow.

I know many people around the world who were alive when Boris Yeltsin, a former Communist apparatchik, appeared from virtually nowhere and said, 'enough'!

That's what fighting's about.

It's not about mostly testosterone-pumped, not much upstairs types who think that 'fighting' means becoming a marine or some such nonsense.

If someone wishes to join their nation's military just for that (such as this film's speakers), it's a waste of my time, and it should be a waste of your time.

The interviews were great.. the footage was so real and raw. This documentary made you experience a true glimpse of what this unit faced and went through overseas. So many emotions were brought up while watching this.. truly a great film to honor our military men and women. ATTACK.

This is the true story of America's Apache pilots in the Iraq war. A true unbiased account of the intense combat the Apache pilots endured during the heaviest of fighting in OIF. For those that want to know the rest of the story, that the main stream media could not show or talk about, this is what you've been waiting for. These Apache pilots showed the enemy the full capabilities that the aircraft has, it showed that the Apache could bring on some incredible firepower and was able to absorb multiple hits from various weapons and continue the fight. Highly recommend this film be viewed by all Americans, especially before Memorial day, to understand what these Apache pilots did to save our brothers and sisters on the ground.