The Hurt Locker" is a tense and exciting movie about a group of American soldiers in Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

One is "The Hurt Locker." It is a tense and exciting movie about American soldiers in Iraq whose job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Like "Avatar." "The Hurt Locker" was also nominated for nine Academy Awards.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

In 2008, she made The Hurt Locker, a thriller about an EOD team in Iraq.

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Oscar favourites The Hurt Locker, Precious and George Clooney's Up in the Air are also in the running.

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Bigelow shot "The Hurt Locker" in Jordan, as close as she could get to the actual conflict zone.

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