22 Films & TV Shows Set In Afghanistan During The 2000s
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Flee
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇩🇰 Denmark The 2000s The 2020sAmin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time he is sharing his story with his close friend.
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The Outpost
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sThe mission was survival. — A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
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12 Strong
🇦🇫 Afghanistan New York The 2000sThe declassified true story of the horse soldiers — A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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The Breadwinner
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sA headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sFrom the headlines to the front lines. — In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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War Dogs
Florida 🇦🇱 Albania 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sAn American dream — Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
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Sonita
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇮🇷 Iran 🇺🇸 United States of America The 2000s The 2010sIf 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she'd be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Michigan Pennsylvania District of Columbia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sTrust no one. — Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Lone Survivor
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sBased on true acts of courage — Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
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The Patrol
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sIf you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will lose every battle — Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle against this unseen enemy.
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Zero Dark Thirty
🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇵🇰 Pakistan District of Columbia New York Nevada Virginia England 🇵🇱 Poland 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sThe greatest manhunt in history. — A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
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Hell and Back Again
🇦🇫 Afghanistan North Carolina The 2000s The 2010sWhat does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
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Dear John
South Carolina New York 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sLove brought them together. Will fate tear them apart? — While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.
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Restrepo
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sOne platoon, one valley, one year — Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.
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Tere Bin Laden
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sA million dollar fake — Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar), a reporter with a downmarket TV channel in Karachi, is keen to go to USA for a better life, but his visa has been refused six times in seven years. In desperation, he gets hold of an Osama Bin Laden look alike and makes a fake Osama tape which he sells to the owner of his channel to raise money for a false identity, a new passport and better luck with US visa. As one can expect, it is far from smooth sailing for him and his friends, as they get into a series of comic situations.
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The Oath
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sTwo Men. Bound to Al-Qaeda. Divided by Fate. — Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Red Sands
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sSpirits take no prisoners — A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.
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Afghan Star
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sThis documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse inhabitants of Afghanistan affords a glimpse into a country rarely seen. Contestants risk their lives to appear on the television show that is a raging success with the public and also monitored closely by the government.
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Iron Man
🇦🇫 Afghanistan California Nevada The 2000s The 2010sHeroes aren't born. They're built. — After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
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Eagle Eye
Indiana Illinois District of Columbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sDon't walk. Run. — Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
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WarGames: The Dead Code
Pennsylvania District of Columbia Quebec 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sAre you ready to play? — Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
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Enemies of Happiness
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sIn September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a courageous, controversial 27-year-old woman who had ignited outrage among hard-liners when she spoke out against corrupt warlords at the Grand Council of tribal elders in 2003. Enemies of Happiness is a revelatory portrait of this extraordinary freedom fighter and the way she won the hearts of voters, as well as a snapshot of life and politics in war-torn Afghanistan.
