Chronicles filmmaker Jim Burroughs' 18 trips to Afghanistan since 1986, the bloody and deceit-ridden period that saw the war against the Soviets, the cessation of US support, the civil war, the rise of the Taliban, the hijacking of the country by al Qaeda, the US-led invasion, and the herculean effort to form a new country under the rule of law.

Through such personal experiences, "Blood on the Lens" documents twenty years of treachery and betrayal, courage and hope in a country like no other.