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Ross Kemp In Afghanistan [2008]
from 2 Entertain Video
starring Ross Kemp

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• PAL

Editorial Review:

The hugely acclaimed series from Sky makes its way to DVD, and if you haven’t checked in with it already, then this is the ideal opportunity to see what the fuss surrounding Ross Kemp in Afghanistan is all about.

Kemp, of course, is still primarily known for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders. But here there’s no fiction: Ross Kemp in Afghanistan sees him joining his father’s old regiment - 1 Royal Anglian - to get first hand experience of the work of the British Army in the fight against the Taliban.

What differentiates Ross Kemp in Aghanistan from the news reports and documentaries that have also tackled similar subject matter is the sheer candidness of it. There’s no hiding the brutality of war, or the intensity of the fighting here. Some of the footage is quite extraordinary and frequently shocking. And you can hardly accuse Kemp of shirking the action: he’s often slap-bang in the midst of it.

A superb piece of work, and a very enlightening one, Ross Kemp in Afghanistan was richly rewarded with plaudits when it was first broadcast, and rightly so. It’s a towering piece of television, whatever your position on the war itself, and one that simply must piece be seen. Superb. --Jon Foster

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Embedded Kemp
  It's strange to see a action movies' actor "acting" in a real battlecamp. The tour of Ross Kemp (Ultimate Force and so on) with the british troops in Afghanistan is very interesting. He make a hystory of the deployment of Vikings beginning from the preparation at home. The scenes at Camp Bastion and during the missions are excellent and they make a "real" reportage of operations in Afghanistan where the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment - the Vikings - lost 9 men with 57 wounded in over 350... more info

• Excellent for all audiences
  Certainly one of the best accounts from the infantryman's point of view. Great for training too, at least in terms of putting people in the picture. The case specifies that subtitles are available. Why then is it impossible to activate this most useful feature?

• Excellent close-up view of what war is truly like
  On almost all DVDs on war the commentator is comfortably sitting in a studio 1000's kms from the action. Ross Kemp does not employ this accepted method. Rather he accompanies the soldiers of the 1st Royal Anglian regiment on their patrols & offensives against the Taliban. The result is that one obtains excellent close-up views of the reality of war. At no stage does one get the feeling that Ross Kemp is pulling any punches when depicting the grim realities of war.
  Maybe similar views are available... more info

• Finally someone has made what I've been waiting for.
  Whilst many know Ross Kemp as "that bloke off the telly", here he really shines as a great narrator to a most extraordinary series.
  Kemp seems to slide into the extremely guarded world of the military with relative ease, however you are always aware that he never quite fits in and nor, it appears, does he attempt to. Instead he narrates the goings on of the Royal Anglican with great empathy and if you have ever disrespected the military before thinking your argument through (as I myself have done in... more info

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