118 Films & TV Shows Set In Iraq
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Gunner Palace
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqAmerican soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.
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Saving Jessica Lynch
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqBased on the true story of the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, by the United States army, in Iraq.
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The Scorpion King
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq Ancient HistoryWarrior. Legend. King. โ In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.
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Marooned in Iraq
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐ท IranDuring the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.
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Live from Baghdad
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1990sBreaking News - Making History โ A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
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Broken Saints
๐ซ๐ฏ Fiji ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐บ๐ธ United States of AmericaWhat would you give to know the truth? โ In the quiet corners of the globe, four strangers โ a cynical American programmer, an aging Japanese priest, a troubled Arabic mercenary and a mysterious Fijian girl โ receive a series of chilling apocalyptic visions. Desperate to understand their frightening visions of the future, these four troubled souls are simultaneously drawn to a dark city in the West where their fates โ and the fate of the world โ are revealed to be linked together and somehow part of a global conspiracy. Amidst an epic struggle of man, machine and otherworldly fear, these reluctant heroes must be willing to sacrifice everythingโฆin order to know the truth and save us all!
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A Time for Drunken Horses
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐ท IranAfter their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.
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The 13th Warrior
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 10th CenturyPrey for the living. โ A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.
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Three Kings
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1990sIt's good to be King. โ A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.
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Bravo Two Zero
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqWhen an elite eight-man British SAS team is dropped behind enemy lines, their mission is clear: take out Saddam Hussein's SCUD missile systems. But when communications are cut and the team finds themselves surrounded by Saddam's army, their only hope is to risk capture and torture in a desperate 185-kilometer run to the Syrian border. Based on the true story of a British Special Forces unit behind enemy lines during the Gulf War, Bravo Two Zero explores the tragedies and triumphs of men taken to the edge of survival in the Persian Gulf War.
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Surface to Air
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqTorn apart by hatred. Brought together by survival. โ Two feuding half-brothers are both assigned to the same aircraft carrier. The carrier is sent to the Persian Gulf and their personal problems are put behind them, while they deal with a Iraqi military officer who has decided to stage a coup. The brothers move in to deal with the problem, but soon find themselves fighting the rebels as well as regular Iraqi troops. When one brother gets in trouble, the other comes to the rescue.
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Independence Day
California Nevada New York Texas District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1990sDon't make plans for August. โ On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
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Courage Under Fire
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqA medal for honor. A search for justice. A battle for truth. โ A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor. At first all seems in order. But then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses...
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The One That Got Away
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1990sThe existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
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Doomsday Gun
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqAn explosive true story. โ Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1990sJust deux it. โ Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue teamโwho went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
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The Thief and the Cobbler
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqIt is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and invisible reality ... Once upon a time there was a golden city. In the center of the golden city, atop the tallest minaret, were three golden balls. The ancients had prophesied that if the three golden balls were ever taken away, harmony would yield to discord, and the city would fall to destruction and death. But... the mystics had also foretold that the city might be saved by the simplest soul with the smallest and simplest of things. In the city there dwelt a lowly shoemaker, who was known as Tack the Cobbler. Also in the city... existed a Thief, who shall be... nameless.
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The Human Shield
District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan The 1990sThe Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
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Hot Shots!
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1990sThe mother of all movies. โ Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 9th Century The 8th CenturyWith Doraemon's "Storybook Shoes" gadget, he and Nobita go to different stories to watch them. Nobita asks Doraemon to allow him to share this gadget with Shizuka and Doraemon agrees.
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The Heroes of Desert Storm
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฐ๐ผ KuwaitThe first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.
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1001 Nights
๐ฎ๐ถ IraqScheherazade's story will be told once again. โ Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1980sTwo North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
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Steal the Sky
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 1960sAn Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq New YorkMaster thief Lupin the Third is after the long-lost Gold of Babylon with the aid of his partners, Jigen and Goemon. They trek the globe, unraveling clues and dodging the attentions of both the Mafia and the tenacious Inspector Zenigata. The stakes have never been higher as Zenigata enlists a team of five beautiful and determined policewomen to lure Lupin the Third into handcuffs. But an elderly drunken woman named Rosetta may be the key to solving the location of this fabulous, ancient treasure.
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