Agency - French program:.Ontario and West Studio. Study guide available.

Director, Claude Guilmain ; director of photography, François Vincelette ; sound recordist, Mélanie Gauthier ; editor, France Pilon ; original music, Daniel Toussaint ; sound editor, Daniel Toussaint ; foley artist, Lise Wedlock ; mixer, Jean Paul Vialard ; producer, Anne-Marie Rocher ; executive producer, Jacques Turgeon.

Participant, Michel-Henri Saint-Louis, Stéphane Guillemette, David Girard, Haji Fazludin Agha, Dean J. Milner, Laurent Charrette, Patrick Auger, Pascal Croteau, Jimmy Lavallière, Maxime Émond-Pépin, Jean-Michel Cloutier, Éric Beauchamp, Christian Marquis, Yves Roy, François Dufault, Stéphane Perreault.

Recorded 2011.

In this documentary, we hear directly from soldiers serving in the Royal 22e Régiment - all of them francophone. Members of the regiment (known in English as "Van Doos") were filmed in the field in March 2011, during their deployment to Afghanistan. They speak with ease and a rare candour about themselves and their work, whether out on patrol or performing their duties at the base. The film's images and interviews bring home the complexity of the issues on the ground and shed light on the little-understood experiences of the men and women who served in Afghanistan. The Van Doos in Afghanistan is an exceptional film that lets the soldiers speak for themselves.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).