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Retrograde

2022 · 94 min Documentary War History
7.1 / 10 · TMDB

The camera embeds with U.S. Green Berets during the final, chaotic months of America's twenty-year war in Afghanistan. Director Matthew Heineman focuses on the fraught, intimate bonds between these soldiers and the Afghan officers they trained and fought alongside. This is not a film of battle maps, but of faces, handshakes, and the heavy weight of an inevitable ending. It chronicles the last days of a shared mission where personal loyalty collides with geopolitical reality, capturing the human connections strained to breaking point as the Taliban advance and the withdrawal deadline looms.

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Year 2022
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary, War, History
Director Matthew Heineman
Runtime 94 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.1/10 (21 votes)

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"Retrograde" is a masterful, visceral descent into the collapse of a war, told through unflinching intimacy rather than sweeping narration. It forces you to confront the human cost of policy, etched on the faces of allies realizing they've been abandoned.

What lingers after the credits is a profound sense of moral vertigo and the haunting question of what obligation remains when the cameras leave. It's essential, uncomfortable viewing. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Matthew Heineman

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Dust-choked air of abandoned outposts, the strained quiet of waiting, the crushing weight of a foregone conclusion.

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