96 Films & TV Shows Set In Afghanistan
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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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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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Essential Killing
🇵🇱 Poland 🇦🇫 AfghanistanRun to live... kill to survive. — A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
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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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Kandahar
🇦🇫 AfghanistanAnother mission with Mahadevan and crew, as they deal with international terrorism with a flight being hijacked by hardcore terrorists.
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Brothers
🇦🇫 AfghanistanThere are two sides to every family. — When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
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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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Sand Serpents
🇦🇫 AfghanistanTerror lies beneath. — Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.
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31 North 62 East
🇦🇫 AfghanistanToo Close To The Truth — A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit's position is revealed by the British Prime Minister to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election.
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Kabuli Kid
🇦🇫 AfghanistanKabul - a city struggling to recover from 25 years of warfare. Taxi driver Khaled picks up a woman and baby. Her face is hidden behind a blue burka. They settle on a price, she pays him and they drive off. The taxi arrives at its destination. The woman gets out and a new passenger climbs in... to find the baby still in the backseat. Khaled leaps out after the woman but she's vanished. He's left holding the baby - a 6-month-old boy. Who is the mother? How can he find her? He asks friends and strangers in the street. He returns to where he picked her up. Nothing. Fate has handed him a young life for which he feels more and more responsible. An eventful, chaotic, often highly comic journey through a city which is itself simply trying to survive. Poignant, rich, vibrant, Barmak Akram's debut feature is a remarkable portrait of one man's emotional awakening in a city returning to crazy life after 25 years of violent conflict.
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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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The Objective
🇦🇫 AfghanistanA team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.
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Mission Istaanbul
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇦🇫 AfghanistanA news reporter must uncover the secret on the 13th floor of a News Station.
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Opium War
🇦🇫 AfghanistanTwo American soldiers crash their helicopter in the Afghan desert and find themselves at the mercy of the natural elements and an eclectic family of Afghan opium farmers.
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Lions for Lambs
District of Columbia California 🇦🇫 AfghanistanIf you don't STAND for something, you might FALL for anything. — Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.
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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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Kaafila
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇵🇰 PakistanKaafila is the touching story of the mad rush of people opting to leave their motherland in search of their utopian dreams of a better life abroad in the developed countries. These people put their careers, families and even lives at stake to reach their desired destinations even when they can be better off in their own countries without all the hardships & sufferings.
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Kabul Express
🇦🇫 AfghanistanFive people - two Indian journalists, an American journalist, an Afghan guide and a Pakistani soldier who takes them all hostage - are taken on a 48-hour journey into Afghanistan in a jeep called the Kabul Express, a special and unlikely bond developing between them along the way.
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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.
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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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