Lebanon - A Must-See Movie

If you are interested in a close-up view of war, particularly modern tank warfare, see this movie.  Lebanon is not a documentary, like Sebastian Junger's Restrepo, but it is somewhat autobiographical since it was written and directed by an Israeli tanker in Israel's 1982 war with Lebanon.  The New York Times did a good review of the movie on August 5, 2010 which begins as follows:

A scene early in “Lebanon” dramatizes the moral confusion of combat with unusual clarity and force. Shmulik (Yoav Donat), a nervous young Israeli soldier who operates the main gun in a tank, has orders to shoot a fast-approaching car. Through his viewfinder he can see the faces of the driver and passengers, and the fact of their humanity paralyzes his hand, preventing him from firing.  .  .  .

In a few seconds the young man’s ethical universe has been dismantled and replaced by a cruder set of imperatives: keep moving; do what you can to survive; obey orders; when in doubt, shoot to kill. This is an abstract way of summarizing something that has, partly because of the close and crowded space of the tank, an almost unbearable intimacy. “Lebanon” is meticulous, nearly clinical in its attention to what happens in war — specifically what happened in the first days of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 — but it is also a palpably and intensely personal film. .  .  .  Read more.  .  .

Check this movie out.  Be aware, however, it is not easy to watch sometimes.  War is hell.