A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
2003년, 세계평화라는 명목 하에 시작된 이라크 전쟁. 미 육군 로이 밀러(맷 데이먼) 준위는 이라크 내에 숨겨진 대량살상무기 제거 명령을 받고 바그다드로 급파된다. 익명의 제보자가 제공한 일급 정보에 따라 수색 작전을 펼치는 밀러 준위, 하지만 작전은 매번 실패로 돌아가고 세계평화라는 거대한 명분 속에 숨겨진 추악한 진실과 마주하게 된다. 퍼즐처럼 얽힌 진실 속에 전쟁은 겉잡을 수 없이 확산되고, 대량살상무기의 존재 여부에 대한 의혹만 커져가는데…
녹색 얼굴의 악마들, 전쟁의 종결자 네이비 실 사이에서도 전설이라 불렸던 남자 ‘크리스 카일’. 총알이 난무하는 전쟁터에서도 군인들이 적을 소탕할 수 있었던 것은 최고의 스나이퍼가 자신들을 지켜줄 것이라는 믿음 때문이었다. 그러나 신은 그에게 관용을 허락하지 않았다. 단 4일간의 허니문, 첫 아이가 태어나는 순간에도 전쟁터를 떠나지 못한다. 더 이상 자신이 사랑했던 남자가 아닌 것 같다는 아내의 눈물에도 그는 조국을 지키기 위해, 한 명의 전우를 더 살리기 위해 적에게 총구를 겨누는데…
VIETNAM: AMERICAN HOLOCAUST exposes one of the worst cases of sustained mass slaughter in history, carefully planned and executed by presidents of both parties. Our dedicated generals and foot soldiers, knowingly or unknowingly, killed nearly 5 million people, on an almost unimaginable scale, mostly using incendiary bombs. Vietnam has never left our national consciousness, and now, in this time, it has more relevance than ever. Claiborne documents the Whitehouse fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and further, raises the question of whether JFK was assassinated to promote the Vietnam War. Martin Sheen, who played the leading role in Apocalypse Now almost 30 years ago, has generously lent his powerful voice to this actual history of the War in Vietnam.
Zaman is a sweet and sad story about love and devotion, hope and fear. Zaman (Sami Kaftan), and his wife, Najma (Shatha Salim), have built their happy life together in their house of reeds and, though childless, adopted a boy, Yacine (Hussein Imad), orphaned by the 1991 Gulf War. They have lived a quiet, contented existence until Najma falls ill. The local doctor tells them she needs surgery or some special medicine he does not have. And so Zaman sets off in his small boat and journeys up the Tigris to Baghdad in search of the precious cure. Thus begins the journey of salvation and discovery for "Zaman, the Man of the Reeds."
Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.
Five marine Operatives are stranded after crash landing in the barren Iraqi desert. They are under strict orders to deliver an important package to Ramadi and they have already been trekking through enemy territory for three days in hopes of completing their mission.
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Three film-makers travel to Iraq to film the ongoing crisis in which ISIS forces are trying to take over the country. The film-makers speak with locals, military, police and other media outlets to get their opinions on the crisis but it's the voices of the children which often goes unheard, so the film-makers listen to the children, and find out their views on the crisis.
The story of two Italian men who are posted to Iraq on a mysterious mission to guard the cell of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison. What's strange is that neither man knows who is inside; they must simply follow orders not to let anyone enter or leave the cell. As time passes their nerves are tested and they begin to wonder whether their charge could be Saddam Hussein...
Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.
Rafea: Solar Mama follows the groundbreaking journey of one Bedouin mother living on the Jordan-Iraq border who, along with thirty illiterate grandmothers from around the world, will travel to The Barefoot College in India to become Solar Engineers. (TIFF)
Examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the film traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence, showing how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong, and what happens next.
Journey to the heart of the conflict between Kurdistan and the armed group Islamic State. This region that has been neglected and ignored for ages is now one of the key destinations for refugees in the region. This medium-length documentary show the spectator the different groups and communities that are either fighting or residing in the Kurd area.
이라크 전쟁. 기관총 사수 이자 19살 어린 미군 매트의 부대는 바쿠바 외곽의 마을의 공병 부대의 엄호를 위해 파견된다. 이 곳에서 그들은 예상치 못한 수니파 극단주의 테러집단의 공격을 받게 되고, 마을은 말 그대로 살육의 현장이 되고 만다.
두 명의 병사가 이라크 저격병에 의해 무너져가는 벽을 두고 대치하게 되는 이야기.
A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
Documents a 40-year relationship between Saddam Hussein and the U.S., through accounts given by those who were witness to and participants in those years of violence. It is about a man and a superpower who used each other, in a marriage of convenience between strange bed-fellows. Includes selected archival footage of Saddam's beginnings, filmed to immortalise his exploits, at 20 years of age, in 1959. Includes also images from the film, Saddam Hussein, le maître de Baghdad, directed by Michel Vuillermet (Zarafa Films)
이라크 국경지역의 쿠르디스탄, 미국의 이라크 침공이 임박했다는 소문에 사담 후세인의 핍박을 피해 많은 사람들이 몰려든다. 이들 중에는 어린이답지 않은 리더십과 조숙함으로 또래 아이들의 인정을 받으며 살아가는 "위성"이라는 소년과 전쟁 속에서 팔을 잃은 소년 "헹고"가 있다. "위성"은 "헹고"의 여동생인 "아그린"을 보고 첫 눈에 사랑에 빠지나, 그녀는 전쟁 중 받은 상처로 늘 악몽에 시달리며 괴로워한다. 전쟁이 임박한 가운데 "위성"은 지뢰를 내다팔고 무기를 사두는 등, 나름대로 살아가는 방법을 찾아나가면서 "아그린"의 관심을 끌기 위해 갖은 노력을 기울인다. 그러나 아그린은 그런 "위성"과 자기를 아껴주는 오빠 "헹고", 그리고 불쌍한 아들인 "리가"가 곁에 있음에도 불구하고 전쟁 중 군인들에게 겁탈당하고 아이까지 낳은 악몽 때문에 늘 자살을 생각하는데......
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
