8 Films & TV Shows Set In Syria During The 20th Century

• 

  Damascus Cover

  🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇾 Syria The 1980s

  A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

  Released in 2018 • 93 minutes
• 

  Jim: The James Foley Story

  🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990s

  In 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.

  Released in 2016 • 111 minutes
• 

  Watchers of the Sky

  🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇸🇾 Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940s

  Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.

  Released in 2014 • 114 minutes
• 

  A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

  🇫🇷 France 🇸🇾 Syria The 1910s

  In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help the king of the Syrian in the Conference of Peace in Paris.

  Released in 1990 • 107 minutes
• The Impossible Spy

  🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇾 Syria The 1960s

  This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.

  Released in 1987 • 96 minutes
• 

  Sirocco

  🇸🇾 Syria The 1920s

  BEYOND CASABLANCA . . . Fate, in a Low-cut Gown, Lies in Wait for Bogart! — A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

  Released in 1951 • 98 minutes
• 

  Background to Danger

  🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇾 Syria The 1940s

  Love in the midst of intrigue! — An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

  Released in 1943 • 80 minutes
• Aufruhr in Damaskus

  🇸🇾 Syria The 1910s

  Released in 1939 •