Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
by Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
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Director: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'NeillProducer: Jon Alpert
Producer: Matthew O'Neill
Producer: Rebecca Abrahams
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO
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DVD Review: This place is special. Very special indeed.
Summary: 5 Stars
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As I begin, let me note that I have subscribed to HBO for many years now, with a small break or two along the way, but for the most part I've subscribed to HBO for well over a decade. Why do I 'pay' for TV, especially premium prices for a channel like HBO? Because of films and content like Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (and the very recently aired, excellent film Taking Chance, which would be a great companion piece to this film).
HBO has done many excellent original films during my time as a subscriber. The list is long, and highly distinguished, including many military themed films and/or mini-series events (Band of Brothers comes to mind). Section 60 is one of the latest in the series of films that help HBO earn the honors they are lauded with.
Section 60 is an HBO Documentary, running approx. 60 incredible minutes, which introduces viewers to "the saddest acre in America." The name-sake Section 60 that the documentary takes the title from is the newest section of Arlington National Cemetery, the section where military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan may be buried. Unfortunately, that Section 60 has been filling with too many victims, and too many family members and loved ones have had to visit and pay their respects to the departed.
Section 60, the HBO documentary is fascinating for the way it treats the family members and all of the subject matter with dignity and respect, and also for the glimpses into the way that the family members are shown bonding with others that have also lost loved ones. What viewers of the documentary see is how members of the military are also part of a much larger family, a brotherhood and sisterhood of military personnel and their extended families.
Thankfully HBO filmed the documentary without a narrator, and no apparent bias in who and what is shown. The result is a film that is a great introduction to the sacrifices of the military, and the final resting place for so many heroes.
Originally aired on HBO in October 2008, I saved Section 60 (the film) on my HD DVR when it aired and have started to watch it several times, only to feel that I just couldn't make it through a complete viewing before, well, now. Having received the DVD from Amazon, I finally resolved to view the copy on the DVR and compare it to the DVD. The copy on the HD DVR was recorded from HBO's high definition channel, as I've become more of an HD snob and refused to watch standard definition content except in rare cases. That includes standard DVD material, as I'd rather wait for Blu-ray versions of content that I really want to see. I have to note that in comparing the material that is on the DVD, it compares very favorably to the version that I can watch from my HD DVR. While neither version is what I would call high definition material, both looked really nice, though it's hard to tell for sure through the 'dust' that seems to be bothering my eyes through a lot of the viewing of material.
I would hope that DVDs of this great documentary are distributed far and wide through the educational system where young people can be educated about current events and military service history.
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