Brent Renaud, of Little Rock, was 50 years old and among the most respected American documentary filmmakers of his generation when he was shot and killed by Russian soldiers while on assignment covering the invasion of Ukraine in March 2022.

He was the first foreign journalist to die in that conflict, and his death constituted an international incident. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Pentagon issued statements praising Renaud’s heroism. As so often happens when a journalist dies in a war zone, silence followed mourning. The work that Renaud had let speak for himself was left undone.

More than three years after his death, Renaud once again shares a director credit with his younger brother and primary collaborator, Craig Renaud. Their new documentary release, “Armed Only

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