In 2011, Laura Varela received a call from a woman named April Rodriguez who wanted to show her some videos she had from the Afghanistan war. The videos had been taken by Rodriguez’s brother, Marine ...

“Retrograde” tells the story of the United States’ final months of its 20-year war in Afghanistan. In the film Heineman, whose “Cartel Land” was nominated for an Oscar in 2016, embedded with the U.S.