NBC – Severe Clear First Look

NBC Los Angeles’ coverage of SEVERE CLEAR First Look: Severe Clear A soldier’s look at the war in Iraq. His own words. His own videos. His own experience.

Transitioning Veteran – Review

Severe Clear is a movie made by a LT of the Marine Core, showing real footage of the Iraq war in 2003. First Lieutenant Mike Scotti records the trials the members of the 1st. Battalion, 4th Marines and himself go through as they push forward for Baghdad in the...

Video Views – Review

Based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Directed by Kristian Fraga (“Anytown, USA”) and featuring a original score by Cliff...

Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule – Review

THE COMPLEX AND CLARITY OR SEVERE CLEAR One could, I suppose, be forgiven for expecting that a documentary on the Iraq war composed entirely of video footage shot by soldiers directly involved in the long, slow roll toward Baghdad would more often than not resemble...

Boxoffice Magazine – Review

The complications of war and the conundrum of media but heads in Severe Clear by Sara Schieron A documentary made from footage taken during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Severe Clear offers a Marine level view of Operation Iraqi Freedom, but its first person account...