118 Films & TV Shows Set In Iraq
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Route Irish
England ๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe most dangerous road in the world conceals an even deadlier secret. โ A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.
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The Devil's Double
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1980s The 1990sThe 80's were brilliant, if you were in charge. โ A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
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Kingdom of Dust
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqWHEN THE MAN LOOKS INTO THE ABYSS ... THE ABYSS LOOKS INTO THE MAN โ In a basement, somewhere in war torn Baghdad, hostage Adam Smith is waiting to die. With no time, no chance, and no hope, he must look into the abyss of his own personal hell and it is here, 'in the valley of the shadow of death' that something divine is awaiting him.
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Salaam Dunk
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqIn the West, we are often bombarded with dramatic and horrifying images of a violent and war-torn Iraq. This makes it easy to forget that people there do "regular" things... like play basketball. Salaam Dunk follows the American University of Iraq women's basketball team as they discover what it means to be students, athletes and friends. This is a story of triumph in the face of chaos and a testament to the perseverance of a handful of young Iraqi women. It shows us how sports can help build bridges of shared values, and potentially lead us toward a future of understanding within Iraq as well as abroad. Above all, Salaam Dunk is a film about basketball, friendship and the pain of losing those we love. From the joy of the team's first win to the pain of losing their coach forever, the film gives us an intimate glimpse into an Iraq we don't see on the news.
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Green Zone
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sChief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders โ 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
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000s170,000 sq miles of desert. 90 minutes of oxygen. No way out. โ 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
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq California Colorado ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 2000sThere Is No Plan B โ 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. โHowling Madโ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco โB.A.โ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton โFacemanโ Peck help out various people they encounter.
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Sergio
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio 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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Dawn of the World
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan The 1970s The 1960s'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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Body of Lies
Virginia District of Columbia England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ถ๐ฆ Qatar ๐ธ๐พ SyriaTrust no one. Deceive everyone. โ The CIAโs hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agencyโs man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky โ a satellite link โ watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIAโs Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
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The Hurt Locker
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sYou'll know when you're in it. โ 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
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sTruth is the first casualty of war โ 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
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq District of Columbia The 2000sThe American Occupation of Iraq. The Inside Story From the Ultimate Insiders. โ 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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Battle for Haditha
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThere are many ways to see the same story โ An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb.
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The Situation
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a cover-up, and complications involving Iraqi mayor Sheikh Tahsin (Saรฏd Amadis), who has a complex relationship with the Americans.
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sWar Without Rules โ 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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Home of the Brave
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqThe day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
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Iraq in Fragments
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqAn opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
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Turtles Can Fly
๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ถ 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
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sA love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion. โ 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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Why We Fight
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq New York ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1990sIt Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever โ Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
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The Liberace of Baghdad
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqHeld up in a heavily fortified Baghdad hotel, Iraq's most famous pianist Samir Peter tries to survive the "peace" of post-war Iraq as he waits for his visa that will grant him a new life in America.
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Fahrenheit 9/11
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq District of Columbia New York The 2000sThe temperature where freedom burns โ 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.
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Alexander
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCThe greatest legend of all was real โ 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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