I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I don't have to say anything else. This movie supports terrorism and ignites terrorism against the United States.They interview only American Amry personnel that are all, to a man, express views that are:1.) Lazy 2.) Anti-American 3.) Pro-terroristNow it shames me to to see these people operating in our Army. But of course these are the people that these terrorist "film-makers" chose to focus on. These so-call film-makers are terrorists in that they give material support to terrorist activity. Then i realize that it is our Marines who really do the real fighting.

Occupation Dreamland is the story of one squad of soldiers in the 82nd airborne division stationed outside of Fallujah, before the city was temporarily retaken by Iraqi Militia. The film-goer meets seven or eight men who spend their days walking through the streets of the city meeting the citizens and searching houses for illegal weapons. During the film they are fired on a couple of times and an improvised explosive device is detonated during one of their convoys. Unlike Gunner Palace the director does not continuously add his own opinions about everything. Although this movie is made in an amateur fashion, it suits the point I believe the filmmakers are attempting to get across. It is not a movie about war or peace, it is a movie about men undergoing a hardship they must overcome in order to continue on with their lives. It is a movie about normal people trying to essentially make the best of a bad situation. I highly recommend this movie for it may squash any preconceived notion people will have about the "war" in Iraq.

I've seen just about every documentary on the Iraq war (Gunner Palace, The Control Room, etc.), every episode of Off To War, and just about every news program that sticks a cameraman in a kevlar vest, be it Nightline or Frontline. And for the most part, they're all very good.Occupation: Dreamland, however, blows them all away.At first glance it looks like all the others. Identical talking heads in some makeshift basecamp, green nightvision raids, and lots of shaky cameras taking cover to the sounds of far-off gunfire and confused voices.But there's something very different about this one.The most obvious difference is the total freedom with which the soldiers appear to be speaking. At only a couple of times to you ever get the feeling that they're mending their speech. The speak openly, crudely, and exactly the way you always thought a 21 year-old infantry soldier in Iraq might talk when the Frontline cameras turn away."What the f--k are you looking at?" a soldier asks one of a handful of Iraqi men standing on the side of the road as he patrols the streets in Falluja. "Quit f--king staring at me like that. F--king a--hole." The really amazing thing though is just how well-spoken and honest they all are. They talk of dropping out of high school, joining the army, hating the army, hating the war, and hating the Iraqi people who clearly hate them back. Most jaw-droppingly though is how just about every soldier, to a man, follows up their dislike of the Iraqi people with, "You know what? If I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the exact same thing." It's such an amazing insight into the men who are actually dealing first hand with the mess we all talk and complain about.Another key difference between Dreamland and all the other documentaries, is the way it really makes you feel the frustrations of an unwinnable occupation. You watch as they raid house after house, looking for insurgents, coming to the same conclusions they're coming to: that no one knows what's really going on, that our intelligence is a joke, everyone seems to be lying AND telling the truth, and that just about anyone could be a "bad guy".And that's when they're NOT being shot at. Their frustration while on patrol, or acting as "security", is just painful to watch. They patrol, in essence, in order to be shot at or blown up. Early in the film everyone drops to the ground as an ungodly barrage of fire erupts a few blocks away. After taking cover, gathering their wits, getting some sort of insight as to the location of the attack, they make their way to the suspected source of the gunfire, conceding immediately that, "Even with a fairly quick reaction time, the insurgents had plenty of time to hide behind another building, hop in a car and drive away, or simply walk back in their house." And in a moment that seemed almost Hollywood-ized in its summarized perfection, the cameraman catches an IED as it blows up alongside their convoy. The freaked out soldiers then immediately open fire on an Iraqi man who happens to be the closest person to the location of the bomb, who himself was almost blown up. Proving that panic makes a crappy gun sight, they miss the guy completely, and watching him run from the explosion into a barrage of gunfire is both hilarious and gut-wrenching, as your heart breaks for everyone involved.Even a minute or two after the explosion, as the soldiers stand around helplessly, their desperation to fight back is palpable."Sarge, I see a guy running over there," one of the grunts says. "You want me to shoot him?" And at the same time you realize, "Geez, isn't that what people do when a bomb goes off - run?" The soldier being interviewed that same day says the exact same thing.Like David Bowie said, "And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through." See this film. It is, by far, the best documentary of the Iraq War, and one of the best war documentaries ever.

i went to see "occupation: dreamland" not because i'm interested in iraq or US foreign policy but because i'm interested in the psychology of soldiers & people at war - in particular, what allows someone to hurt, damage & kill someone else - and i really enjoyed getting up close & personal with the soldiers of the 82nd airborne. their candid reflections on what they're doing there & what the war is about are equally charming & terrifying ("i have confidence the government wouldn't send us just to protect oil"; "it's all about adding another OPEC country") and some of the footage detailing army practices (the reenlistment scene, for example) are just plain terrifying. the film is also a useful companion piece to the fresh-faced army press officer of "control room". quite frankly, these guys seemed a lot more clued up, despite being (as one review puts it), "21-28 year-old high school dropouts and failed junior college liberal arts majors whose enlistment stems more from a lack of options than patriotism or ideology."speaking of reviews, one of the most interesting things for me, as a non-American, were comments like the following from the reviews: "In this sense, then, the greatest accomplishment of 'Occupation: Dreamland' is showing those of us on the home front that it really is possible, Republican howling to the contrary aside, to support our troops without supporting the war itself." um, sorry? sure, you don't need to spit on them from a great height, but you either support one country invading another or you don't. the soldiers conscientiously carried out their instructions to spread a little good pr, but no one was fooled, least of all the soldiers themselves. shame, really, that they weren't being used on true peace-keeping missions in places that could use a little first-world intervention. darfur or the ivory coast, anyone?