Episode
Generation Kill: The Cradle of Civilization
Overview
Bravo Company gets an order to treat any Iraqi, holding a weapon, as a hostile.
Details
- Series
- Generation Kill
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2008-07-20
- Runtime
- 68 min
Episode context
The Cradle of Civilization is Episode 2 in Miniseries of Generation Kill. It aired on 2008-07-20. The runtime is 68 min.
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Episode 1: Get Some
Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom; while the Marines wait to receive their orders at Camp Mathilda in Kuwait, they learn that Rolling Stone columnist Evan Wright will be embedded with them.
Episode 3: Screwby
Bravo Company waits for their next orders, while scoping out a roadside firefight, they watch in shock as a regimental combat team arrives with guns blazing.
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Episode 4: Combat Jack
After capturing an Iraqi airstrip, the First Recon is ahead of the other American and Coalition troops, which gives them time to regroup.
Episode 5: A Burning Dog
First Recon get their orders to cross a local Iraqi bridge, which gives them their first chance to use local Iraqi citizens. As First Recon gets closer to the bridge, they are ambushed.
Episode 6: Stay Frosty
First Recon get their next mission, which is to help escort the Iraqi civilians leaving Baghdad from a nearby highway, while trying to help them flee, the men see the humanity in the Iraqi civilians; First Recon come to the realization that since Baghdad is the next stop for American and Coalition forces, their war is almost at a close.
Episode 7: Bomb in the Garden
Having reached Baghdad, Bravo Team is shocked at the size of the city; while First Recon begin doing their daily patrols in Baghdad, they find out the obstacles that they and the Iraqis face is much greater than they could ever think of.