IRAQ

BABYLON:

X  Cortigiana di Babilonia (Queen of Babylon) (1956)  --  Babylonia rebels against the Assyrian empire, 626 B.C.

Intolerance (1916)  --  first of four stories deals with intolerance in Babylon that leads to its fall to the Persians, 539 B.C.

IRAQ:

X  Jani gal (The Agony of a People) (2007)  --  an Iraqi Kurd gets mistaken for the leader of a protest and gets slapped into prison

House of Saddam (2008)  --  biographical film of the Iraqi dictator (1979-2003)

X Al-ayyam al-tawila (aka Long Days) (1980)  -- propaganda film for Saddam Hussein trying to overthrow Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in 1959

Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988):

Arousi-ye Khouban (Marriage of the Blessed) (1989)  --  young Iranian photographer of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) has troubles adjusting to civilian life

Gulf War (8/90 - 2/91):

Gomgashtei dar Aragh (Marooned in Iraq) (2002)  --  a well-known Kurdish musician seeks to find his ex-wife stranded in Iraq at the time of Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds

Courage Under Fire (1996) -- fiction set during the 1991 Gulf War

Jarhead (2005)  --  US marines in the Gulf War

Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) --  after Gulf War

Live from Baghdad (2002)   --  CNN reporting team manages to relay accounts of the bombing of Baghdad in the Gulf War

Bravo Two Zero (1999)  --  true story of British SAS mission behind enemy lines

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2002)  --  nationalistic fervor in New Mexico during the Gulf War helps lead to tragedy

L'Aube du monde (Dawn of the World) (2008)  --  multiple impacts of the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War and the 1991 uprisings in Iraq seen through the eyes of a Marsh Arab in Iraq

The Heroes of Desert Storm (1991) – story of Operation Desert  Storm from viewpoint of some of the participants

Iraq War:

A Nation Deceived (2006)  --  Bush and Cheney lie the nation into a war with Iraq (with Ed Asner)

X  Fahrenheit 9-11 (2004)   --  Bush & Co. use fear to win elections and wage unnecessary war

The Road to Guantanamo (2006)  --  three Pakistani-British citizens in Afghanistan are tortured by American soldiers

Khuda Ke Liye (meaning "In the Name of God") (2007)  --  a Pakistani student in the USA gets arrested following 9/11 hysteria

Rendition (2007)  --  USA sends an innocent man accused of terrorism to be tortured at the hands of Egypt's secret police

A Mighty Heart (2007)  --  death of journalist for the Wall Street Journal at the hands of a terrorist group in Pakistan

Why We Fight (2006)  --  military-industrial complex leads to continued wars for the US

Syriana (2005)  --  cynical look at almost all the actors dealing with the politics of oil in the Middle East

Embedded (2005)  --  satire of the Iraq War and its starters and promoters, including the news reporters embedded with the American troops

X  Redacted (2007)  --  pressures on American soldiers leads to criminal acts

Battle for Haditha (2007)  – based on the Haditha killings incident in which US marines killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children on November 19, 2005

X  Grace Is Gone (2007) – a father who does not want to tell his two daughters that their mother has died while serving in Iraq

Home of the Brave (2006)  --  three soldiers, including a doctor, have difficulty adjusting to life at home following a long and difficult tour of duty in Iraq

X  The Lucky Ones (2008)  --  three Iraqi War veterans suffering from various stages of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder go on a road trip

X  Saving Jessica Lynch (2003) --  the US army deliberately fudges a story to make a woman soldier a hero to help with the army's image  --  ($29)

X  Generation Kill (2008)  -  HBO Iraq War miniseries about first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003

X  Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare (2007) – a terrorist attack in Iraq, November 12, 2003, kills 24 Italians participating in a peace keeping mission  (no English options)

The Hurt Locker (2008)  --  the problems facing a bomb squad in Iraq with the overwhelming number of IEDs to defuse or explode

Fair Game (2010)  --  Bush II lies the USA into war with Iraq and then Cheney tries to punish Joe Wilson and his wife for exposing the lies

Green Zone (2010)  -- army inspectors sniff out a huge cover-up while looking for weapons of mass destruction