15 Films & TV Shows Set In Afghanistan During The 20th Century
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Leaving Afghanistan
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sThe War Is Over. Not Their Mission. — 1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
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The Swallows of Kabul
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1990sSummer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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The Magic Mountain
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sThe film investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s. The director employs a highly original artistic technique involving animated collage of period materials.
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Kandahar
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1990sA docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.
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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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Charlie Wilson's War
Nevada District of Columbia Texas 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1980sBased on a true story. You think we could make all this up? — The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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The Kite Runner
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThere is a way to be good again. — After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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9th Company
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sThey stood together while their country fell apart — Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
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Earth and Ashes
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1970sElderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.
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Afghan Breakdown
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sA drama about the last days of a specific Russian regiment stationed in Afghanistan, before the main troop withdrawal in 1985.
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Rambo III
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980sThe first was for himself. The second for his country. This time it's to save his friend. — Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
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The Beast of War
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sWar brings out the beast in every man. — During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
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The Living Daylights
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇬🇮 Gibraltar 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1980sLiving on the Edge — James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
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Spies Like Us
🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇯 Tajikistan District of Columbia 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1980sWith spies like these who needs enemies? — Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
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High Road to China
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇨🇳 China The 1920sTom Selleck takes you on a high adventure! — A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
