Retrograde

RETROGRADE captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. Special Forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee as the country collapses and the Taliban take over. From rarely seen operational control rooms to the frontlines of battle to the chaotic Kabul airport during the final U.S. withdrawal, Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s latest film offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.

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AWARDS

Edward R. Murrow Award (Winner) Feature Documentary
DOC NYC Features Award (Winner) Producing Award
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary (Winner)
Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary (Winner)
Outstanding Editing: Documentary (Winner)
Outstanding Direction: Documentary (Nominee)
Outstanding Sound (Nominee)
Outstanding Promotional Announcement (Nominee)
Directors Guild of America Award (Nominee) Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Producers Guild of America Award (Nominee) Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
Critics Choice Documentary Award (Nominee) Best Political Documentary
Montclair Film Festival (Nominee) Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature

CREDITS

Director and Producer Matthew Heineman
Produced by Caitlin McNally
Executive Producers Carolyn Bernstein, Baktash Ahadi, David Fialkow, Joedan Okun
Cinematographers Tim Grucza, Matthew Heineman, Olivier Sarbil
Editors Pablo Garza, Matthew Heineman, Grace Zahrah
Co-producers Tim Grucza, Lani Levine, Olivier Sarbil, Grace Zahrah