Three camera-wielding Colombian journalists turn the personal into the political in this first-person account of their country's ongoing, seemingly never-changing civil war. Comprising video diaries that three well-known members of Bogotá's innovative television production company Citurna TV shot over the course of four years, War Takes gives a voice-and a face-to Colombia's intelligentsia, individuals whose iMacs, digital cameras, and fine arts educations hold little comfort in the face of bombings, paramilitary death squads, and summary executions. Family vacations to the countryside merge with archival news reports of village massacres; husband-and-wife arguments revolve around whether to bulletproof the car, and babies grow up against a backdrop of televised peace accords, peace breakdowns, mass-grave discoveries, and government debacles. “Those who want peace, let them pray,” states a weary UN advisor, but War Takes illuminates how those caught in war must continue to live, as well.