Island Soldier is a 2017 American documentary film written, directed and produced by former Peace Corps volunteer Nathan Fitch.
[8] On November 14, 2018, the film was broadcast on PBS television and the World Channel as part of the America ReFramed series.
[10] Sheri Linden of the Hollywood Reporter praised it as "an affecting chronicle of gentle lives and quiet outrage.
"[11] Jason Sanders, in Filmmaker Magazine, writes that the film "benefits from Fitch’s camerawork, empathy and connection to their subjects, while Bryan Chang’s deft editing does well to underline both Kosrae’s breathtaking natural beauty and its more prosaic, end-of-the road isolation that forces so many of its youth to leave.
"[13] On the negative side, Chad Blair of the Honolulu City Beat criticized the film for asserting "that Micronesians are killed at a higher rate than soldiers born in the 50 states, though the evidence is limited.