Iraq War documentary, once shelved by PBS, to air 17 years later

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground. But the film almost never came to be.

The Last 600 Meters: The Battles of Najaf and Fallujah was delayed for 17 years after PBS declined to air it for reasons that director Michael Pack shared with the Washington Examiner .

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PBS initially rejected the documentary in 2008 because of its perceived pro-military bias and lack of political commentary, even though the Corporation for Public Broadcasting w