Series Movies Docs HBO Max Podcasts Schedule Sign In Get HBO About All Documentaries About All Documentaries INTERVIEW By Eleanor Laurence I was a writer. I wasn’t a filmmaker. I certainly didn’t go to Iraq to make a film. But once I picked up a small video camera, I quickly realized its value as a notebook because it could record the dialogue that I couldn’t when the bullets are flying and the bombs are going off. Each year when I would return to Australia to visit my family, I would dump that year’s batch of tapes into a Tupperware box under my mother’s bed. After seven years I eventually came home for good, but it wasn’t until about a year later that I actually began to start watching those tapes. It was at that point that I knew that I needed to do something. Heart of Darkness Apocalypse Now One of the things that led me to the narrative was by accident I happened to pick up an o...