This documentary was awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at Cannes film festival (2010). The documentary ends with the members of Team 7 returning home to Denmark. Three members of Team 7 are wounded, and the ensuing 5 minutes are incredibly graphic and tense. The patrol force, made up of volunteers from Team 7, head out at dusk in search of the enemy, but the patrol is ambushed. Team 7 plans a night patrol in an attempt to ambush the Taliban. Not long after the realization that the Taliban know their weaknesses, Team 7 looses three fellow Danish soldiers from a nearby Forward Operating Base. Within one month, a car bomb detonates close to ‘Armadillo.” The commander of Team 7 is seriously wounded. Using their Stryker vehicles for cover, the dismounted soldiers take cover and return fire, eventually driving the enemy away whilst sustaining no casualties. Within seconds, the dismounted member of Team 7 takes heavy machine gun fire. When out on a normal patrol, the soldiers realize that the civilians are fleeing from their village. The Taliban aims to disrupt all ISAF activity in the area, and destabilize the Helmand Province.
Team 7 is first tasked with securing the perimeter of Forward Operating Base, “Armadillo,” where they begin to understand their mission and the enemy that they will be fighting. Upon their arrival at Forward Operating Base, “Armadillo,” the members of ISAF Team 7 meet with members of the Danish ISAF team that they will be replacing. It depicts the rigorous training, and emotional strain for preparing for a combat tour of duty. The film begins several days prior to the team’s departure from Denmark. The documentary “Armadillo” (2010), made by the documentary filmmaker, Janus Metz, follows a ISAF Team 7, a Danish Army unit, on a six-month long combat deployment to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan. War documentaries are so personal and often very raw to watch. Documentaries and films based on the war in the Middle East are popular such as “Zero Dark Thirty,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and four other awards (2012).
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