Is Combat Obscura real footage?

Combat Obscura is composed of video footage taken from 2011-2012 by lance corporal Miles Lagoze and other cameramen from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, in Sangin-Kajaki, Afghanistan. As a combat photographer, the footage was originally shot for recruitment and propaganda purposes.

How long is combat Obscura?

1h 10m
Combat Obscura/Running time

When was combat Obscura filmed?

Most of the footage shown in this film was shot in the years 2011 and 2012.

What is combat Obscura rated?

When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

What is combat obscura?

In other words, Combat Obscura is the flipside of the carefully vetted, promotional videos Lagoze was creating every day as part of the Marine Corps’ vast public relations operation.

Is it bad for people to see this marine patrol footage?

“It’s not good for people to see this,” one U.S. Marine says. After the patrol, Lance Cpl. Jacob Miles Lagoze, the combat cameraman who filmed the scene, returned to the patrol base to file his daily footage. As a Marine, Lagoze enjoyed the kind of unlimited access journalists rarely get.

Will unfiltered footage anger the Marine Corps?

Lagoze knows this unfiltered footage will anger the Corps, and possibly draw the ire of some of the Marines he served with, but he says that exposing the reality of that war is worth the risk.

What happened to the Marine Corps documentary ‘True/False’?

The documentary premiered March 1 at the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri. While the audience loved it, the Marine Corps did not. Because the footage was shot while he was on active duty, Lagoze sought clearance last summer from the Pentagon’s Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to use it.