96 Films & TV Shows Set In Afghanistan
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Neither Heaven Nor Earth
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2010sAfghanistan, 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarรจs Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarรจs and his menโs determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
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The Magic Mountain
๐ฆ๐ซ 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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A War
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanDuty goes beyond the battlefield. โ Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.
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Sonita
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐บ๐ธ 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 ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sTrust no one. โ 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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Taken 3
California ๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanIt Ends Here โ Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
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Fort Bliss
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanSoldier. Mother. So many expectations. โ After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
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Korengal
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanThis is what war feels like โ Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war.
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Pride of Lions
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanAction / Comedy - Five retired ex-military men attempt the unthinkable and dust off their old uniforms for one last explosive mission. The team quickly discovers that they are up against an enemy from their past. This time, The Dependables mission is personal. With guns blazing, the group puts their lives on the line to defeat their arch nemesis and save their grandchildren.
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The Great Man
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanSent to Afghanistan for 6 months, legionnaires Markov and Hamilton are caught in an ambush during an unauthorized expedition. Markov saves Hamilton, seriously wounded by rebel fire, but leaves the Legion without honors. Once back in Paris, Hamilton, convalescing, hopes to remain a legionnaire, while Markov, now a civilian and without working papers, tries to make ends meet with his son Khadji. Hamilton lends his identity to his Chechen friend, so that he can work legally. But one day, Markov disappears, leaving Hamiltion disorientated and Khadji alone in the world.
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Kajaki
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanA film about bravery, courage, heroism and the ultimate sacrifice. โ British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
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O21
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanTwo men only have 21 hours to stop a war between Afghanistan and Pakistan. An Afghan militant steals a microchip containing the names of people who want to exploit Afghanistan's mineral reserves.
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The Patience Stone
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanShe achieved her independence by telling stories filled with forbidden secrets โ In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
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An Afghan Love Story
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanItโs snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationshipโtheyโre playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers she is pregnant, her certainty that Mustafa will marry her falters, and word of their dalliance gets out. Her father must decide between his culturally held right to uphold family honor and his devotion to his daughter.
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Dirty Wars
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ธ๐ด Somalia ๐พ๐ช Yemen The 2010sA secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth. โ Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
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Lone Survivor
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sBased on true acts of courage โ 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
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sIf you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will lose every battle โ 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
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan District of Columbia New York Nevada Virginia England ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sThe greatest manhunt in history. โ 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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Source Code
Illinois ๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanMake Every Second Count โ Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time.
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Hell and Back Again
๐ฆ๐ซ 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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Special Forces
๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanSurvival. Honor. Sacrifice. โ Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the worldโs most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim โ to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them โ emotionally, violently and intimately.
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Afghan Luke
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanDisheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas Wright), tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen (Stephen Lobo) has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar (Vik Sahay). Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.
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Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanIn a country with innumerable problems, Skateistan represents an oasis where children can be children and build the kinds of cross-cultural relationships that Afghanistan needs for future stability.
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Stitched
๐ฆ๐ซ AfghanistanSomewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, three little figures stagger across the desolate landscape. Their Blackhawk burning in the rocks and the rest of the crew gone with it, the trio must survive both the terrible conditions and the hostile attentions of the locals. But there are worse foes than Taliban fighters in this ancient land, as an old and terrible force arises to serve a twenty-first century evil.
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Dear John
South Carolina New York ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sLove brought them together. Will fate tear them apart? โ 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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