Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.

The 2008 film on the Iraq war, deemed too pro-military at the time, has now been labeled antiwar. Can both be true?

That's one reason Iraq may go down as the documentary war. Quietly but steadily, a body of inexpensive, do-it-yourself documentaries has begun to provide long-term perspectives of what it's like to be ...