This searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stun audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans, articulating their stories on-camera - stories that must be heard. The stories are those of a half-dozen American heroes, ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq.

The Ground Truth charts recruitment, training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal demons, an kind of hero, learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth.