Just out of high school, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps, where he was deployed to Afghanistan and served as Combat Camera—his unit’s official videographer. But upon discharging, Lagoze took all the footage and assembled the very documentary the Corps does not want you to see.

Transfixing and explosive, this behind-the-scenes look at marines in Afghanistan razes American ideals of war heroes to the ground. Shot with audacity on government equipment, the military threatened legal action against the officer-turned-filmmaker at the helm of this eye-opening documentary.