Thirteen years of war. Dozens of car bombings every month. One goal: to become an Olympic champion. The true story of grit and determination, of young men literally fighting for their lives one day on the battlefields of Iraq and competing to fight for their Nation the next one. Despite living under the persistent threat of ISIS, these athletes will strive to accomplish their task. The amazing journey of the Iraq National Team from obscurity and desperation to the edge of an historical qualification to Rio 2016. Will private Waheed be able to manage his army duty with his desire to go to the Games? Is young Jafaar ready to aspire to the Olympic stage he has been dreaming of, despite living in the most dangerous suburb in the world? Will promising heavyweight Saadi come back from his mission to liberate Falluja? Will Iraq finally be a peaceful Country?
O diretor Michael Moore investiga como os Estados Unidos se tornaram alvo de terroristas, a partir dos eventos ocorridos no atentado de 11 de setembro de 2001. Os paralelos entre as duas gerações da família Bush que já comandaram o país e ainda as relações entre o atual Presidente americano, George W. Bush, e Osama Bin Laden.
No 1º fim de semana após retornar do Iraque, Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) desaparece. Ele passa a ser considerado como foragido do exército, com seus pais, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones) e Joan (Susan Sarandon), sendo informados. Ao saber do caso Hank, que é um ex-policial militar, decide partir em busca do filho. Ele recebe a ajuda da detetive Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron), que trabalha na jurisdição onde Mike foi visto pela última vez. À medida que as investigações avançam o que era um caso de desaparecimento torna-se uma suspeita de assassinato, o que faz com que Emily tenha que enfrentar o alto escalão militar.
Em uma vila de curdos no Iraque, na fronteira entre o Irã e a Turquia e pouco antes do ataque americano contra o país, os moradores locais buscam desesperadamente uma antena parabólica, na intenção de ter notícias via satélite sobre a proximidade da guerra.
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.
Em março de 1991, foi assinado o cessar-fogo na Guerra do Golfo. Em meio às comemorações no acampamento norte-americano, um mapa é descoberto junto a um dos prisioneitos iraquianos. Mostrando a rota de um tesouro enterrado no deserto do Iraque, quatro soldados americanos resolvem partir em sua busca.
A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents Janek Ambros' directorial debut. The feature doc tackles the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties and the strange coalition it's creating between the progressive left and libertarian right. The doc examines the NSA, drones, the war on journalism and other encroachments on civil liberties started by the Bush era and expanded by the Democratic establishment.
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."
JERABEK is an intimate portrait of one family that confronts the tragedy of war. Ryan Jerabek wanted to get out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, see the world and do something different. Moved by what happened on September 11th, the honor student and varsity athlete joined the Marines and left for boot camp weeks after his high school graduation. Nine months later, he was killed in Iraq. The film chronicles, over two years, the changes in the lives of his family. Beyond politics, headlines and statistics, JERABEK offers a candid, personal look at the toll one death takes.
O poeta e professor universitário Attilo De Giovanni (Roberto Benigni) vive num mundo distante da realidade, em meio aos sonhos de conquistar a mulher que ama. Em 2003, logo depois de lançar o livro de poesia "O Tigre e a Neve", a realidade do mundo finalmente o atinge quando descobre que a mulher de seus sonhos foi ferida num dos primeiros bombardeios americanos sobre o Iraque. Ele consegue achá-la em Bagdá e se envolve então em inúmeras dificuldades para conseguir encontrar, em uma cidade destruída, os medicamentos de que ela precisa.
Um documentário fictício discute os efeitos que a guerra do Iraque deixou nos soldados e nos habitantes locais através de entrevistas com membros de uma unidade militar americana, a imprensa e os iraquianos locais.
Um olhar cronológico sobre o fiasco no Iraque, especialmente as decisões tomadas na primavera de 2003 - e os antecedentes daqueles que tomam decisões - imediatamente após a derrubada de Saddam: nenhum plano de ocupação, uma equipe inadequada para governar o país, tropas insuficientes para manter a ordem, e três decretos da Casa Branca anunciados por Bremmer quando assumiu.
Durante a Guerra do Iraque, James, um novo sargento assume o comando de uma equipa treinada em desarmamento de bombas. No meio de conflitos violentos, ele surpreende os seus subordinados ao mergulhá-los sem prudência num jogo mortal de combate urbano. James comporta-se como se fosse indiferente à morte e à medida que os homens lutam para controlar o seu líder, a cidade explode em absoluto caos e James revela a sua verdadeira personalidade de uma forma que irá para sempre mudar estes homens.
Gas flaring has long been known to be both a major polluter and a serious health hazard. In Iraq, it's ruining ordinary people's lives, leaving communities ravaged by abnormally high levels of cancer. With oil giants like BP using a loophole to avoid reporting emissions, and governmental promises to end the practice ringing hollow, what will it take to eradicate toxic pollution from Iraq's skies?
Four high school football stars enlist in the Marines and head off to fight in the war in Iraq. When one of them is killed and another wounded, they return home only to find is extremely difficult to pick up the threads of their old lives. The memories of events in Iraq combined with the lack of public support pushes many of these men to the breaking point.
Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
In the months before the war in Iraq , Abdel and Umayr , two brothers who are very close, will be forced to separate from each other. Months later , with the war in full swing, they will meet again , but neither of them is the same.
Gulliver e Treacle são dois garotos comuns de 18 anos que estão em serviço pelo Exército Britânico no Iraque. Seu pelotão está tentando a todo custo estabelecer a paz, mas na noite em que o capitão Godber é morto durante sua patrulha, a moral do pelotão é destruída e, seguindo ordens, eles acabam praticando atos brutais. De volta à Inglaterra, os eventos no Iraque voltam a assombrá-los quando a ex-namorada de Gulliver entrega as fotos da fatídica noite para a polícia. A história chega aos jornais e Gulliver e Treacle, agora os homens mais odiados do país, são levados ao tribunal. O exército alega que eles agiram sozinhos. Agora, eles precisam decidir se mantêm seus segredos e sua lealdade ao exército ou se expõem toda a verdade sobre a fatídica noite.
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.
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...
