96 Films & TV Shows Set In Afghanistan
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Alexander
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇮🇷 Iran 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCThe greatest legend of all was real — Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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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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Brothers
🇩🇰 Denmark 🇦🇫 AfghanistanA Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
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Battle Royale II: Requiem
🇦🇫 Afghanistan Tokyo PrefectureThis time it's war. — It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
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Osama
🇦🇫 AfghanistanTo save her family a girl must become a boy — After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
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At Five in the Afternoon
🇦🇫 AfghanistanNogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her own hunger is preventing her from lactating. Nogreh, however, aspires toward a life in a western styled democracy. Although the Taliban are no longer in power in Afghanistan, traditional forces are still active in the country. Nogreh often displays signs of rebellion, such as wearing a pair of white pumps instead of the traditional slipper beneath her burqa. But mostly, Nogreh wants to be educated. Without her father's knowledge, Nogreh is attending a secular girls school. Ultimately, she wants to become President of Afghanistan. With the help of a Pakistani refugee who likes her as a woman, Nogreh tries to understand exactly what forces led to current world leaders being elected, those forces which she wants to emulate.
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Escape From Taliban
🇦🇫 AfghanistanSushmita and Jaanbaz live in India, and they are in love. They intend to marry, but Sushmita's family is strongly opposed to the marriage, since Jaanbaz is a Muslim and they are Hindus. But Sushmita and Jaanbaz do get married, and Jaanbaz takes her with him to his country--Afghanistan. On the way there, Sushmita is horrified to see mutilated corpses, bomb explosions, and armed militants. She is terrified and asks Jaanbaz to take her back, but Jaanbaz takes her to his home.
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Kandahar
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇨🇦 CanadaAfter an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
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Khuda Gawah
🇦🇫 AfghanistanBaadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.
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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.
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The Man Who Would Be King
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1880sRudyard Kipling's epic of splendor, spectacle and high adventure at the top of a legendary world. — A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
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Royal Flash
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1840sNe'er-do-well Harry Flashman is coerced by Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince. — Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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Dharmatma
🇦🇫 AfghanistanWealthy, powerful and influential Seth Dharamdas leads a financially secure life in a palatial mansion. He is known to come to the aid of all people who are beyond any hope of assistance, and this leads to him being known as "Dharmatma". But Seth Dharamdas does have a number of skeletons in his closet, and a parallel life as a gangster. The only person Dharamdas hates and fears is none other than his very own son, Ranbir, who has sworn that he will never compromise with his father's dark career, and threatens to expose him. Dharamdas has never conceded surrender or defeat at the hands of any mortal, and will never even consider to do so - even if this means the death of Ranbir.
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The Horsemen
🇦🇫 AfghanistanA Horse Worth Killing For. A Dream Worth Dying For. — In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their clans is determined less by wealth or even military power (both rare) then by victories in the ancient, though game of buskashi, a vicious form of polo dating back to Genghis Khan, in which the chapendaz (participating horsemen) use their horse-whips on both mounts and rivals in a ruthless fight for a heavy 'ball', a dead calf, which must be carried a long way, almost impossible with all the others mercilessly assailing. Tursen, a former champion, now holds the status of village notable thanks to his position as stable-keeper of the regional lord Osman Bey, and has finally bred a horse without equal, the white stallion Jahil, in time for the royal tournament on the plain of Bagrami, just outside the capital Kabul...
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Zarak
🇦🇫 AfghanistanFor the Harem Beauty...Mighty Zarak Fought Half a Continent! — A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
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Khyber Patrol
🇦🇫 AfghanistanAdventure charges down from the wilds of India... — British officers of India is jeopardized when warlords Ahmed Shir and Prince Ishak Khan battle at the Khyber Pass. Enter Capt. Kyle Cameron of the British Lancers, whose renegade style may either save the day or doom the region to chaos. When Cameron learns that greater forces are pulling the strings, he attempts to destroy Shir's rebel faction from within.