Helen Benedict talks about interviewing female veterans who experienced sexual assault in Iraq; and how they represent a small, but important part of the story of women serving in the military.
Aaron Glantz, a former war correspondent, writes about the death of Dwight Radcliff, an Air Force veteran who overcame homelessness to become president of the United States Veterans Initiative.
Donna DeCesare speaks with Kael Alford about her evolution as a photojournalist and the connections between her efforts to document the oil-driven war in Iraq and the impact of unfolding natural disasters in the Gulf of Mexico on fragile Louisiana communities.
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington insist they didn't want to make an activist movie. They wanted to make a documentary that showed what military deployment was like, politics aside. They wanted to show why men keep going back to war even after the trauma and the bloodshed, why they keep seeking that sense of brotherhood. In the film "Restrepo," they've succeeded.
This four-part independent documentary gives viewers a window into the everyday lives of American soldiers in Iraq, and the emotional and physical cost they bear. Originally produced in 2009.
In February 2010, the Dart Center hosted "The Secret Life of War Reporters" with Emma Daly, Santiago Lyon and Donald Margulies.
Laura Linney and Brian d'Arcy James's portrayal of a wounded journalist couple in the play "Time Stands Still" sparks a discussion of war reporting's lasting effects.
Through quiet portraits and moving interviews, wounded Iraq veterans convey the physical and psychological consequences of war.
Award-winning journalists and married couple Santiago Lyon and Emma Daly talk about why they became war reporters, why they stopped and the difference between their lives and those of a war reporter couple in Donald Margulies' play, Time Stands Still.
PRI's Jeb Sharp and the 2009 Dart Award judges talk about how she reported her series, "Rape as a Weapon of War," and why it won the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.