Helmand Province
Afghanistan’s ‘Little America’ Experiment: ‘Mad Men in the Mud’
In the 1950s, Washington started funding a massive aid program in the heart of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, attempting to build dams, canals and roads that would make the desert bloom. In the decades that followed, the project collapsed.
‘Hell and Back Again’: Fighting in Afghanistan, Recovering in North Carolina
In 2009, filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with U.S. Marines “Echo Company” as the marines launched a major offensive on the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Danfung worked closely with Sergeant Nathan Harris, one of the Marines leading the charge. When Danfung returned to U.S. a few months later, he discovered that Sergeant. Harris had […]
