Film Threat has just released its list of ” indie films from the festival circuit that didn’t suck.” They included Year at Danger and said “Little can prepare you for Steve Metze’s uncensored, unexpurgated account of life on the ground at FOB “Danger” near Tikrit, Iraq. [...] this may very well be the best documentary of the year. And none of you saw it.” Check out the whole list right here.

While announcing the Houston Film Critics Society’s 2008 award-winners, The Houston Press‘ Pete Vonder Haar decided to share his picks for the best films of the year and said Year at Danger received his vote for Best Documentary of 2008!

You can read Pete’s original, five-star review of the film here.

Bad Lit recently named Year at Danger one of its Top Films of 2008. Check out the article here, or re-read Mike Everleth’s original review of the film here.

Mike Everleth at Bad Lit posted his very positive review of Year at Danger today. He says “This is an incredibly powerful, emotionally moving and deeply resonant documentary” and that it “…unfolds like a traditional action film, really.”

You can read the whole review at Bad Lit.

Year at Danger along with The War Tapes, and fellow GI Film Festival selections Brothers at War and This is War are featured in an article in the current issue of National Guard Magazine.

You can check out the article here. (Be advised that this will download a PDF file of the full article, for the magazine’s main page go here.)