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.