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One year after its "liberation" by U.S. forces, Iraq had descended into chaos. The country's infrastructure was in a shambles, the death toll was still rising, and vast swathes of the country had become no-go areas for American troops. How did the situation deteriorate so quickly? Why did the cheering Iraqis who initially welcomed the Americans turn against them? This documentary, filmed in 2004 shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, examines...
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What lies behind the 12-foot-high wall separating Sunni from Shia in Baghdad? The wall was constructed as part of the 2007 U.S. troop surge and was meant to protect the minority Sunnis by enclosing them within their own district. But many Sunnis just feel trapped, and the barrier has done nothing to reduce hostilities between the rival factions. Armed with duplicate IDs, childhood memories, and sheer nerve, an Iraqi expatriate visits both sides of...
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The invasion of Iraq was the most extensively-reported conflict in history, with more than 2,000 journalists descending on the country. But paradoxically, most of this coverage never made the news back home. This documentary contrasts coverage of the Iraq War with the reporting of previous conflicts, revealing how the 2003 invasion was sanitized and repackaged for the American public, and assessing the wider implications of the media's role in war...
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After receiving a flash drive from the WikiLeaks organization containing nearly 400,000 secret military reports, the producers of British current events show "Dispatches" teamed up with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to analyze the raw data. This documentary presents the results of their collaboration - findings which strongly suggest that U.S. troops in Iraq were killing more civilians than insurgents at checkpoints, that they killed people...
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The British first discovered oil in the Iraqi region (then part of the Ottoman empire) in 1908, and they fought in the region during World War I, helping Iraq to overthrow the Ottomans. Although there was a nationalist movement in Iraq after World War I, the San Remo Conference established Iraq as a British Mandate. The British installed King Faisal I at this time. In 1930 the British granted Iraqi independence and, in return, received exclusive control...
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Shi'a Muslims all over Iraq are taking up arms to combat the spread of the Islamic State. Iranian filmmaker Majed Neisi travels to the edge of Anbar Province, to embed himself with the under-equipped but determined volunteers fighting to rescue their country from the onslaught of ISIS. Filmed in the battlefield as bullets ricochet all around, The Black Flag provides a powerful look at the Shi'a men fighting the Islamic State.
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At FOB Endurance in Iraq, American army instructors are training Iraqi security forces to defend their own country. With the insurgency raging outside the base, Sgt. Alvarez has only four weeks to turn a group of men into soldiers, but the time-honored method of yelling and swearing is less effective when recruits don't understand English. With exceptional levels of access and unexpected moments of levity, this documentary chronicles the creation...
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Ali Hassan Al Majeed - the notorious "Chemical Ali" - was a political appointee responsible for Iraq's Kurdistan region when he boasted that he would "take two-thirds of the Kurds and hit them with chemicals until they die." Using mass killings, deportations, and chemical weapons, Chemical Ali crushed insurrections among minority rebels and Shia dissidents on a scale so devastating that it came to be known as the Kurdish Genocide. Coupling eyewitness...
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Corporal Martin Webster became publicly vilified when his cell phone footage of British soldiers beating young Iraqi civilians, accompanied by Webster's mocking voice-over, went viral in 2006. Even now Webster finds it hard to listen to his own insensitive comments, saying he was a different person when the video was made. This deeply personal documentary follows Webster for 18 months, starting from the day he left the army to cope with posttraumatic...
11) Iraq
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Iraq is the focal point of the Bush Administration war on terror in the Middle East and an Arab country transitioning to the democracy.
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When the Iraqi government threatened to expel all foreign mercenaries following the controversial Blackwater Baghdad shootings of 2007, the role of private military contractors was thrust into the spotlight. There's no denying that the use of hired security forces is transforming the way we wage war. The contractors earn four times more than regular soldiers, act with impunity, and in Iraq, outnumber all non-U.S. soldiers combined. This program follows...
13) The Rise of ISIS
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Martin Smith draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look at how ISIS grew out of the disaffection of Iraqi Sunnis...
14) An Unseen Enemy
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Love, hate & propaganda III: An unseen enemy: Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. George Bush Sr sends in the troops. And a quick and decisive victory ensues. But President Bush Sr. makes one crucial mistake. Instead of bringing all the troops home, a sizable contingent is left in Saudi Arabia - to stabilize the region. It's a crucial mistake which contributes to the rise of Osama bin Laden.
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This film covers the rise of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and explains the significance of its proclaimation of a Caliphate and its status as a terrorist group controlling vast territory and resources. It shows how ISIS unites local Sunni grievances with international jihadist ambitions. It examines the future of the war between ISIS and its enemies.
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In 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi troops to invade Kuwait. Arab powers asked the Western nations to intervene and the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions. Hussein ignored the warnings and the U. N. demanded Hussein withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January. Hussein defied the order and in 1991, U.S. President George Bush ordered a massive air offensive. With excerpts from his journal and archival footage, follow President Bush through...
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This unprecedented historical retrospective provides an inside look at how the U.S. responded to the Gulf crisis, how America's leaders evaluated data and options, how decisions were made and policies implemented, and how the crisis was managed on a day-to-day basis-in short, the steps that led to war and thence to the cease-fire. The participants include James Baker, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and most of the other members of President Bush's "war...
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Nearly everyone agrees that the military buildup known as the "surge"-or some confluence of events-improved security in Iraq. But the idea that the United States is winning the war is debatable. Will the United States leave a reasonably decent society and a reasonably representative government, without sectarian violence or civil war? Will Iraq remain friendly toward the United States?