Terry Sanders
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Director, producer, writer Terry Sanders is a two-time Oscar winner and one-time Emmy award winner who has produced and/or directed more than 70 award-winning dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, and television specials. His body of work includes Return with Honor, the highly acclaimed theatrical non-fiction feature that tells the riveting story of top-gun U.S. fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam who became POWs for up to 8 1/2 years, and Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper, an Oscar-nominated documentary short on the famed musician and conductor who survived Dachau.

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Fighting For Life on Memorial Day

2 Comments | Posted May 22, 2009 | 05:08 PM (EST)

This Memorial Day Weekend, 75% of PBS stations across the U.S. will broadcast Fighting For Life, a feature documentary I made about military medicine, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the wounded. The film focuses on the incredible skill, compassion and dedication of military doctors, nurses, medics and medevac teams,...

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Fighting for Life

Posted March 4, 2008 | 11:19 PM (EST)

In January, 2006, I spent 4 1/2 days filming at the Air Force Combat Support Hospital in Balad, Iraq.
Here are some random notes I took when we weren't shooting:

Night. January 19. Fly with crew to Balad, 60 miles north of Baghdad in...

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