Military & War

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Once Upon a Time in Iraq
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq

Once Upon a Time in Iraq chronicles the story of the Iraq War from the perspectives of the people who lived through it. It covers events between 2003, when coalition forces occupied the country, and 2014, when the Islamic Sta...
My Enemy, My Brother
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My Enemy, My Brother

My Enemy, My Brother tells the extraordinary story of two former enemies from the Iran–Iraq War who forge an unlikely bond. Zahed, an Iranian child soldier, found Najah, a wounded Iraqi soldier, barely alive in a bunker. In a...
The White Helmets
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The White Helmets

The White Helmets unveils the dangerous and life-saving work of the Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group operating in opposition-controlled areas of Syria, including Aleppo. Nicknamed the White Helmets, the voluntee...
The Secret History of ISIS
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The Secret History of ISIS

The radical group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is considered one of the greatest terrorist threats of modern times, yet its origins remain shrouded in mystery. The Secret History of ISIS investigates how a sma...
Zero Days
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Zero Days

Zero Days investigates the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to have been developed by the US and Israel, which famously targeted and damaged an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010. The documentary’s title refers to the wa...
Korengal
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Korengal

Korengal continues the eye-opening and terrifying account of a US military platoon in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008. The documentary follows the same soldiers featured in Restrepo. Rather than focusi...
The Act Of Killing
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The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing describes the Indonesian mass killings that occurred between 1965 and 1966 and the men who carried them out. Following the country’s failed coup, Anwar Congo and his associates embarked on a murder spree th...
Attack of the Drones: Is War Becoming a Video Game?
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Attack of the Drones: Is War Becoming a Video Game?

Attack of the Drones looks into the growing role that drones play in peacekeeping and military endeavours. It opens inside an air force data centre filled with banks of screens, some of which display the data being fed to ser...
The Invisible War
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The Invisible War

The Invisible War reveals the secretive and harrowing story of the sexual assault epidemic within the US military. Lauded by journalists, lawmakers, and advocates for its influence on government policy, this award-winning doc...
Hell and Back Again
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Hell and Back Again

Hell and Back Again is a painful, brutally honest look at the realities of war in the modern world. For many soldiers, war does not end when they return to their homes and families. Instead, their triumphant return is only th...
Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East
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Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East

Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East is an eighteen-part series that recounts Russia’s epic military role on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. It begins with the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, known as Operation...
The War You Don’t See
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The War You Don’t See

The War You Don’t See, by John Pilger, examines the reliability of the media during conflicts around the world, particularly in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It also discusses the role of embedded r...