view of supply-route vehicles

This view of an M1 Abrams tank, Humvee and other vehicles was shot through binoculars on a supply route north of Taji, Iraq. A central piece of "The War Tapes" is house-to-house fighting in the battle for the city of Fallujah.

The film runs to just 97 minutes, but it is the product of 800 hours of footage from the soldiers in Iraq and an additional 200 hours gathered by Scranton and her U.S.-based crew. "The unseen collaborator on the film is the internet," the filmmakers say on their Web site. "This is a Web 2.0 outside the wire--the intimate power of the internet exploding on the movie screen."