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>> all individuals are contained. getting ready to fire. >> we got a guy shooting. now he's behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the commanding officer on the ground to fire on the group. >> clear. all right. firing. >> line them up. >> come on, fire. [ gunfire ] >> they're running. >> keep shooting. >> the apache fires and fires and fires into this group of guys. it appears that they're all dead right away. >> look at those dead bastards. >> nice. >> a few minutes pass and the reuters employee begins crawling away. >> he's got that guy crawling right now on the cur...

>> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> they've been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan it's as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news' richard engel the network's chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didn't know what we were going to find. we went to the korangal valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would s...

Dressed similarly, the pilots don't realize that two of them are journalists. photographer amir nouradeen and his driver. the apache soldiers seem to mistake amir's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade. >> he's got an rpg. >> we've got a guy with an rpg. >> i want to fire. >> all right. let's hold on. let's come around to our point of view. >> all individuals are contained. getting ready to fire. >> we got a guy shooting. now he's behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the commanding officer on the ground to fire on the group. >> clear. all right. firing. >> line the...

And then there was gunfire everywhere. richard and another soldier and i raced back to the humvee. >> the bullets are pinging off the side of the humvee. >> as i'm between this rock and the humvee, and redden is walking backwards, so the two of us are behind this humvee, i'm walking forward and he's walking backwards filming me and i'm trying to prevent him from falling and then getting run over by the vehicle or shot. >> my mind is racing because we need pictures, but you can't have pictures unless you're filming. and in fact, richard and i were having a giggle the other day because i said, r...

That's the great thing about being a cameraman. we have this amazing power with this thing that we hold in our hand to record life. >> i don't like war. i don't like seeing war. i don't like going to war. but war happens. and i think it's important to see war up close as a society, to understand about our human nature. war has its own dynamic that is also fascinating, is also grotesque and is also beautiful in some respects. because you see the chivalry that comes out. the chivalry that is gone in almost every other aspect of our society. and yet the brutality, which is also a part of our huma...