Hyena Road

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1. #001

   The footage of vehicles, Afghan soldiers and similar elements seen between scenes was actually shot in Kandahar during the final combat deployment.

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2. #002

   "Hyena Road" actually exists and was known as "Route Hyena." Many of the background stories told by the characters actually happened during the construction of the route (for example, an engineer lost his leg beneath a culvert, as 39A recounts near the beginning of the film).

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3. #003

   Nanawatai (Pashto: "sanctuary") is a principle of the Pashtun people's Pashtunwali code. It allows a besieged person to enter another person's home and make a request that cannot be refused, even at the cost of the host's own life or fortune.

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4. #004

   It was shot partly at CFB Shilo in Manitoba and partly in Jordan.

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5. #005

   Although it was not named in the film, Route Hyena was designed and built by U.S. Army engineers of the 557th Engineer Company, 864th Engineer Battalion, as part of Canada's Task Force Kandahar mission. While American soldiers provided the actual construction labor, Canadian contractor officers mobilized more than 300 dump trucks a day to maintain a construction rate of "300m per week." The Taliban fired on civilian drivers from nearby grape fields and opium fields, causing significant delays and constant fear.

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6. #006

   At the beginning of the film, one of the sniper team wears a baseball cap with 42 on it. This is a unit from 42 Commando Royal Marines (always pronounced Four Two, NEVER Forty Two), part of the United Kingdom's 3 Commando Brigade, the UK military's Premier Combat Brigade.

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7. #007

   The Canadian unit depicted in the film was a battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the PPCLI. PPCLI snipers are known for their abilities. Two of them currently rank in the top five for long-distance combat shots.

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8. #008

   Although it received a wide release in Canadian cinemas, the film failed at the box office. Later media discussions of the film's failure theorized that it was partly due to writer/actor/director Paul Gross's earlier Canadian war film, Passchendaele (2008), which disappointed many Canadians who went to see this film.

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