NGC to Re-Air Oscar-Nominated Doc

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Next month, National Geographic Channel in the U.S. will re-broadcast the acclaimed film Restrepo, which today picked up an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature alongside, among others, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Gasland.

Restrepo, the Grand Jury Prize winner for documentary at Sundance, will re-air in its entirety, with limited commercial interruption, on February 2 at 8 p.m. From award-winning photojournalist Tim Hetherington and journalist/author Sebastian Junger, it chronicles the deployment of U.S. troops in the Korengal Valley, one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan. 

Restrepo was nominated alongside Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gasland, Inside Job and Waste Land.