There have been other films about the Afghan war, including 12 Strong, War Machine, Lone Survivor, and the superb doc Restrepo. To avoid damaging the trust they had established with the Afghans, Cali and another semi-hostile dog named Willie Pete were shot by Staff Sergeant Ian Boone and another soldier. Daniel Rodriguez, who plays himself and joins an elite club with World War II hero and Army veteran Audie Murphy and Marine Corps veteran Rudy Reyes. As with Captain Benjamin Keating, the movie pushes both of their deaths to 2009 and fictionally depicts both men as being part of the 3/61 CAV (3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment). Director Rod Lurie is himself a West Point graduate and an Army veteran. The idea was to stop the insurgents' supply lines coming in from Pakistan. Now, it's the subject of Hollywood movies, books, two Medals of Honor (the highest award the US military can give) and a history lesson the United States is teaching itself about a war that it's still fighting. While exploring the movie's historical accuracy, we confirmed that during the real-life Battle of Kamdesh, Taliban fighters got inside Outpost Keating. The Afghanistan War’s Battle of Kamdesh in 2009 is a shining moment of military heroism in the face of failed strategy, a story of men who fought valiantly to win a battle that they should’ve never been asked to fight. I feel it every day". Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming … ... Daniel was one of 53 Americans who battled insurgents after nearly 400 Taliban attacked the American Combat Outpost Keating near the town of Kamdesh. Aiming for authenticity, the interaction among the soldiers is filled with bravado and bluster, what one disparagingly describes as "frat boy" stuff -- although "stuff" isn't the word he uses.

“The Outpost” will be available for rental via cable providers and digital stores like iTunes, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Vudu, GooglePlay, FandangoNOW, Redbox Digital, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox. The open letter, published Thursday morning by National Security Leaders for Biden, contains 489 names. Seven Americans died defending the the base, and another succumbed to his injuries later. It feels like we have shot a week even though it's really been four. The tiny place that had seemed so forlorn in person now comes across as the stuff of painful legend. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. In this episode, hosts Jim Golby and Alice Hunt Friend speak with Jake Tapper and Rod Lurie as well as with Ty Carter, Daniel Rodriguez, Stoney Portis, and Katie Kopp about the Battle of Kamdesh, recently brought to life in the book and movie, “The Outpost.”, CSIS is pleased to introduce Reset the Table, a project targeting today’s challenges to global food security and calling for renewed U.S. leadership at the table. ", Hardt replies: "F**k no. Regeneration: Using Bioengineering to Protect and Restore the Terai Floodplain of Nepal, Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation, Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation, Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts, Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations, On the Horizon: Prioritizing Nutrition within the Covid-19 Context, Becoming a Chinese Client State: The Case of Serbia, Online Event: Trade and the Post-Covid Global Economy, Post-pandemic Governance in the Indo-Pacific: Adapting USAID’s Strategy in the Face of Covid-19, Chinese Technology Acquisitions in the Nordic Region, The Strategic Significance of Africa’s Smallest Democracies. The night before, we trawled Sofia's bars with Jones and Carter, who make an odd couple, one trying still to absorb the battle he survived, and the other trying to absorb that Keating survivor. The cast also features Orlando Bloom (“Lord of the Rings”), Milo Gibson (son of Mel Gibson) and Kwame Patterson (“The Wire”) as commanders of the outpost. The camp burned into the night and some of the building walls fell to the ground. “The Outpost” has the opportunity to bring the story to a much larger audience.

Caleb Landry Jones gives what should be a career-defining performance as Carter. Jake Tapper, author of the book The Outpost, wondered the same thing when he embarked on his research. However, Army 1st Lt. Benjamin Keating's death actually happened three years earlier, in 2006, not 2009. But that’s not where we are right now. Romesha understands that thoughts of home and family might interfere with the laser focus required to have the backs of his brothers in arms.