Fighting for Life, the film

Directed by Terry Sanders
Executive Producer Tammy Alvarez
89 minutes

Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary of American military medicine. The film interweaves three compelling stories:

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  • Military doctors, nurses and medics working with skill, compassion and dedication amid the vortex of the Iraq War.
  • Wounded soldiers reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal.
  • Students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences—the "West Point" of military medicine, located in Bethesda, Maryland—on their journey to becoming career military physicians.

Specifically, the film follows 21-year-old Army Specialist Crystal Davis from Iraq to Germany to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as she overcomes the loss of her right leg. The filmmakers were granted extraordinary access to combat support hospitals in Iraq, medevac flights of wounded soldiers and military hospitals in Germany and in the United States.

For more information, please visit the official 'Fighting For Life' website.