No End in Sight (2007), Turtles Can Fly (2004), Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004), Bravo Two Zero (1998), Bekas (2012), Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006), Bulletproof Salesman (2008), Iraq in Fragments (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Iraq movies.
Storyline: This documentary film takes a critical look at the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the war that followed. The film includes extensive interviews with various military and government officials, many of whom worked under President George W. Bush during the beginning of the Iraq war. Filmmaker Charles Ferguson uses these first-hand accounts to suggest that the Bush administration, as well as the provisional government they instated in Iraq, have made crucial, irresponsible errors.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, politics, usa, occupation, conflict, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.
Plot Keywords: war, children, refugees, survival, poverty, trauma, hope ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Using a wealth of different sources, Robert Greenwald investigates the motives and pretexts of the administration of former President George W. Bush for going to war in Iraq after 9/11. Greenwald's film dissects the different catalysts leading to the war, from the media's treatment of the issue to the practice of "data mining." A panel of experts lend their voices to this examination, including CIA analysts, a former CIA director, previous ambassadors and a weapons inspector.
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, politics, investigation, truth, u.s. government, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: British soldier Andy McNab (Sean Bean) leads a British Special Air Services patrol deployed during the Gulf War to take down Saddam Hussein's growing arsenal of Scud missiles. The fearless unit successfully inserts itself behind enemy lines, but inclement weather and loss of radio communication threatens to doom its mission. Captured and taken prisoner by the Iraqi army, the heroic soldiers of Bravo Two Zero must overcome the odds to escape almost certain torture or death.
Plot Keywords: war, action, military, based on true events, british, special forces, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iraq in the early 1990 was a devastating land to survive in. When we think of Iraq, the first thing that tends to pop into our minds is the war and Saddam Hussein. But there is another side too - it is perhaps the most notorious country in the world and it goes by the name Kurdistan. Welcome to BEKAS. This is a story about two homeless brothers Zana (6) and Dana (10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want to go to America and live with Superman. Once they get there he can solve all their problems, make their lives easy and punish everyone that has been mean to them. Zana, the younger brother, starts to make a list of all people he is going to tell Superman to punish. On top of the list is Saddam Hussein. Dana on the other hand makes a concrete plan for what they need to get there; money, passports, transportation and a way to get across the border. Unfortunately they have neither of those. But in spite of everything they decide to follow the dream.—Karzan Kader
Plot Keywords: war, children, brotherhood, adventure, journey, poverty, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: If you are a Liberal go see this movie... If you are a Conservative go see this movie...Everyone needs to see this movie. This like Greenwalds Wal-Mart movie can only be seen at private screenings hosted by families, churches, and in community centers all over the country. Screening films like this Greenwald refers to gorilla distribution. Forgoing all distribution companies to leave it up to the people to get the movie out there. With doing this Greenwald wants people to talk and discuss the movie instead of walking out and going home to never bring it up again. Which you will want to do with this film Iraq for Sale. In his newest film Iraq for Sale: The war Profiteers. Greenwald goes after the giant corporations that are making money off the War in Iraq. Exposing their illegal actions and immoral attitude to this war. Discovering how much money the corporations are making when soldiers are making far less and living a lot worse. It will make you sad and sick that our government would be allowed to do this to our men overseas. This movie crosses party lines and I once you watch this movie you will change your mind on what is happening in Iraq.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, corruption, politics, war crimes, investigative journalism, anti-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From a high-tech workshop in Germany to battle-torn regions of Iraq and Afghanistan, this documentary follows the adventures of Fidelis Cloer, a man who sells armored vehicles to political leaders and well-connected businessmen. Cloer's business thrives when his clients feel at their most vulnerable, and he seems resigned to the fact that he makes most of his money during wartime. His latest challenge is devising a vehicle that can withstand roadside explosives that begin to dot Iraqi highways.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, military, conflict, journalist, danger, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style with no scripted narration, the film explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis to illustrate and give background to larger trends in Iraqi society.—James Longley
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, conflict, politics, society, culture, occupation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary by Oscar winner Laura Poitras about the war in Iraq.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, politics, occupation, humanitarianism, conflict, democracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small group of adventurous American soldiers in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War are determined to steal a huge cache of gold reputed to be hidden somewhere near their desert base. Finding a map they believe will take them to the gold, they embark on a journey that leads to unexpected discoveries, enabling them to rise to a heroic challenge that drastically changes their lives.
Plot Keywords: war, action, adventure, comedy, drama, crime, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Looking at the Iraq War from the Iraqi point of view, this documentary tells the story of Ibrahim, a teenage boy whose brother is killed by American forces while guarding a mosque. Ibrahim would like to join in with the anti-American rebellion and avenge his brother's death, but now that he is the eldest male sibling in his family, he must put aside his desire for revenge in order to run his brother's fledgling photography shop and provide for his family.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, family, tragedy, conflict, death, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Waking groggy in pitch darkness, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq in 2006, slowly realizes he is trapped inside a wooden coffin, buried alive. With his cigarette lighter, he can see the trap he is in, and he quickly realizes that there's not enough air for him to live long. He finds within the coffin a working cellphone, which allows him contact with the outside world. But the outside world proves not to be very helpful at finding a man buried in a box in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Paul must rely on his best resource--himself.
Plot Keywords: thriller, suspense, drama, confined space, survival, tension, desperation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison where he discovers the true meaning of liberation.
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, politics, journalism, military, prisoner, counterterrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: American 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.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, iraq war, frontline, real events, war on terror, war trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Americans in Iraq, insurgency rising, truth illusive. U.S. soldiers in Samarra throw boys off a bridge; one drowns. An American reporter and her Iraqi photographer pursue the story. Samarra's mayor aids the U.S. and fears the rising power of an ex-Republican Guard. The mayor uses a Baathist ex-diplomat to sell out his rival. The diplomat wants a post abroad, so he trades "intel" for safe passage. The reporter's lover, a CIA man in Baghdad, pushes for progress on public works in Sumarra; he promotes cooperation with Rafeeq, an intellectual whom other Americans call an insurgent. Rafeeq is in danger. All roads lead to the village of Al Tawr. War at its most opaque: Iraqis call it "the situation."—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, politics, journalist, conflict, america, military, occupation ...
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