25 Films & TV Shows Set In Iraq During The 2000s
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Green Zone
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sChief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders — During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
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Buried
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000s170,000 sq miles of desert. 90 minutes of oxygen. No way out. — Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
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The A-Team
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇮🇶 Iraq California Colorado 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000sThere Is No Plan B — A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.
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Sergio
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sérgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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The Hurt Locker
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sYou'll know when you're in it. — Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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Redacted
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sTruth is the first casualty of war — A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
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No End in Sight
🇮🇶 Iraq District of Columbia The 2000sThe American Occupation of Iraq. The Inside Story From the Ultimate Insiders. — Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over.
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sWar Without Rules — The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
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Turtles Can Fly
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sTurtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
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The Tiger and the Snow
🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sA love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion. — Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
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Fahrenheit 9/11
🇮🇶 Iraq District of Columbia New York The 2000sThe temperature where freedom burns — Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
