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Seal Team Six: The Raid On Osama Bin Laden

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Conflict Through Film Assignment The film I watched was “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden” and it was released in theatres in the United States in November of 2012. As the name suggests, the movie is about a team of Navy Seals who get followed through training and preparation for a nighttime raid on a compound in a Pakistan. The movie begins with the attempt to find Osama by following his underlings and tracing them back to himself or another who could aid them in the discovery. This is accomplished when Osama is supposedly spotted after surveillance of a compound where no technology is allowed in and the people who live there do not leave. In an effort to maintain privacy of those inside the compound all trash is burned and food is kept within the compound. Throughout the movie, a team of two men goes through different techniques and surveillance strategies to attempt to get an affirmative that Osama is within the compound. When the main characters of the movie are trying …show more content…

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