118 Films & TV Shows Set In Iraq
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Chintu Ka Birthday
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sDuring US invasion of Iraq some illegal migrants are waiting to get back home to India. As one such family prepares to celebrate the 6th birthday of their youngest member Chintu, their kind-hearted Iraqi landlord lends them a helping hand.
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Curveball
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sAlthough he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name “Curveball”.
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Semper Fi
🇮🇶 IraqHonor your brother — Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
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Mosul
🇮🇶 IraqFor the nation to endure, a city must die — An Iraqi journalist joins an army of uneasy allies and unforgettable characters in the epic battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.
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Mosul
🇮🇶 IraqWhen ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
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Hondros
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya 🇱🇷 Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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On Her Shoulders
🇨🇦 Canada 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇶 Iraq New York The 2010sNadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people's good intentions.
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The Mummy
England 🇮🇶 IraqWelcome To A New World of Gods And Monsters — Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
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The Yellow Birds
🇮🇶 Iraq Virginia The 2000sThere Are Moments That Test Us And Choices That Define Us — Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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Sand Castle
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sHome is a war away — Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
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The Wall
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sThis isn't war. It's a game. — An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
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Megan Leavey
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sBased on the true story of a marine's best friend. — The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.
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Take Off
🇮🇶 IraqA group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
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Tiger Zinda Hai
🇮🇶 IraqWhen a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by the militant Abu Usman, Indian Intelligence (RAW) track down the reclusive agent, Tiger, 8 years after he fled with former Pakistani intelligence (ISI) agent, Zoya. Joining forces in the name of humanity, Tiger and Zoya lead a team of RAW and ISI agents to covertly enter the hospital where the nurses are trapped.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Virginia Texas 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000s19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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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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Jim: The James Foley Story
🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foley’s close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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Tiger Raid
🇮🇶 IraqWhile on a covert mission, two cold blooded mercenaries form an unlikely bond as they race across the desert in the dead of night. When their violent and desperate world implodes, past atrocities come to the surface threatening to tear each of them apart.
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Karbala
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sOn 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, led by Lieutenant colonel Grzegorz Kaliciak. The clash developed into the biggest Polish engagement since World War II. Not a single allied soldier died, although about 80 insurgents were killed in a counter-attack.
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Deliver Us from Evil
New York 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2010sYou haven’t seen true evil. — When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.
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Red Sky
🇮🇷 Iran 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇸🇾 Syria The 2000sGo Rogue — Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
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Boys of Abu Ghraib
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sAn American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.
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Penthouse North
🇮🇶 IraqA reclusive photojournalist lives quietly in a New York penthouse, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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Bekas
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1990sThe American Dream is waiting just around the corner — Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana (7) and Dana (10) live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.
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