Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

The Wall

2017

English

6.2

♡ 181

65%

Doug Liman Director

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Isaac

Laith Nakli as Juba

John Cena as Matthews

An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.

Accidental Anarchist

2017

English

6.9

♡ 1

John Archer Director

Noam Chomsky as Self

Amina Ossi as Self - deputy for foreign relations in al-Jazira canton

Michael Premo as Self - Occupy Wall Street activist

Tammy Shapiro as Self - Occupy Wall Street organizer

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became disillusioned, quit his job and started searching for answers.

Heval

2021

English

6.5

♡ 1

86%

Adam R. Wood Director

William Denjoy as Self

Jason Fritz as Self

Nuri Mahmoud as Self

Keith Caraway as Self

When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career - and when his service ends, neither the UK nor the US welcome him back. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier experts - and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters - Heval gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it.

Fair Game

2010

English

6.8

♡ 39

78%

65%

Action

Biography

central intelligence agency (cia)

Doug Liman Director

Satya Bhabha as B.U. Student #2

Chet Grissom as Dir. of CIA Operations

David Andrews as Scooter Libby

Norbert Leo Butz as Steve

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.

Son of Babylon

2009

Arabic

7.2

♡ 7

100%

Mohamed Al Daradji Director

Yasser Talib as Ahmed

Patrick Lally as American

Bryan Bounds as American

Shazada Hussein as Um Ibrahim

A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.

Route Irish

2010

English

6.4

♡ 39

73%

special air service (sas)

suspicious death

Thriller

War

Ken Loach Director

Geoff Bell as Alex Walker

Mark Womack as Fergus

Najwa Nimri as Marisol

Stephen Lord as Steve

A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

The Battle of Mosul

2.5

Bernard-Henri Lévy Director

In October of 2016 the battle for Mosul, the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital in northern Iraq, began. With unprecedented access, Bernard-Henri Lévy and his team follow the Kurdish units and the Iraqi special Golden Division. From street to street, they fight together to regain this city of two million inhabitants. Though successful, the hopes of the Kurdish fighters might not always align with those of their allies.

100 Miles to Redemption

2022

English

6.5

♡ 1

Action

afghanistan

afghanistan war (2001- )

Documentary

iraq

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Andrew Shebay Director

Dave Matanin as Dave Matanin

Kelly Matanin as Kelly Matanin

Marcia Matanin as Marcia Matanin

Shawn Livingston as Shawn Livingston

A poignant story about overcoming our demons and finding hope through darkness. Haunted by the affects of PTSD induced by fighting a war, the physical injuries that led to copious amounts of opiates, the emotional strain of his squad leader committing suicide, losing his best friend from overdosing on heroin, all combined with his drug addiction ultimately left Shawn losing all hope in life.

No End in Sight

2007

English

8.2

♡ 1

96%

Charles Ferguson Director

Campbell Scott as Narrator

Lawrence Wilkerson as Self

Dick Cheney as Self

Colin Powell as Self

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.

The First Movie

2009

English

7.3

64%

Mark Cousins Director

Mark Cousins as Self

Mohammed Mahmud as Self Falla

Falla as Self - a friend of Mohammed Mahmud

Gharib Ahmad Rauf as Self - Mark Cousins' translator

Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.

My War

2018

English

5.0

♡ 1

Julien Fréchette Director

Hanna Bohman as Self Rebaz

Rebaz as Self

William Savage as Self Thierry

Thierry as Self

A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The feature documentary 'My War' probes the complex motives behind the need to take up arms on someone else’s behalf.

The Card Counter

2021

English

♡ 79

88%

Paul Schrader Director

Willem Dafoe as Gordo

Billy Slaughter as Lackey #1

Tiffany Haddish as La Linda

Oscar Isaac as William Tell

William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.

Redacted

2007

English

6.1

♡ 3

44%

Brian De Palma Director

Happy Anderson as Battalion Commander / Prosecutor

Daniel Stewart Sherman as B.B. Rush

Don McKellar as Criminal Investigator

Abigail Savage as Tattooed Kid

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.

Sisters Apart

2020

German

5.8

♡ 3

Daphne Charizani Director

Christoph Letkowski as Alex

Maryam Boubani as Ferhat

Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Fuhrmann

Lucas Prisor as Tim

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.

You Are Not a Soldier

2021

Portuguese

8.0

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

father daughter relationship

Maria Carolina Telles Director

Andre Liohn as

As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.

The Four Horsemen

2008

English

3.4

♡ 6

25%

Sidney J. Furie Director

Jordan Brown as

Joanna Douglas as Angie

Natalie Roy as Cathy

Mark O'Brien as Eric Rollins

Four high school football stars enlist in the Marines and head off to fight in the war in Iraq. When one of them is killed and another wounded, they return home only to find is extremely difficult to pick up the threads of their old lives. The memories of events in Iraq combined with the lack of public support pushes many of these men to the breaking point.

Iraq in Fragments

2006

Kurdish

7.1

♡ 3

91%

James Longley Director

Marmar Alhilali as

Mohamed Qasim Sainakh as

George W. Bush as Self

Mohammed Haithem as Self

An 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.

Standard Operating Procedure

2008

English

7.4

♡ 1

79%

Errol Morris Director

Cyrus King as Military Intelligence

Joshua Feinman as Military Police

Shaun Russell as Military Police

Alim Kouliev as OGA / Interrogator

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

The Tiger and the Snow

2005

Italian

7.0

♡ 4

21%

Roberto Benigni Director

Abdelhafid Metalsi as Dottore Salman

Jean Reno as Fuad

Noah Lee Margetts as Private Roadblock

Francesco De Vito as Valeri

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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