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The Activists

The story of activists who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including their lives, the tactics they used, and the historical context.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 60 minutes

Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World

The Soviet troops' intervention in Afghanistan was a pivotal event in the history of the 20th century. It launched Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 52 minutes

Afghanistan Unveiled

Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban’s repressive rule and recent U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghani women.

Women Make Movies | 2003 | 52 minutes

Blowback

BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 30 minutes

A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way.

MediaStorm | 2011 | 27 minutes

Deadly Mistakes?

Critically analyzes some US foreign policy interventions since World War II.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 160 minutes

Enemies of Happiness

The first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.

Women Make Movies | 2006 | 59 minutes

Hidden Wounds

Explores this painful reality of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the stories of three veterans and their struggles to overcome the trauma of their experiences.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 57 minutes

Human Terrain

Examines and questions the US military's new counterinsurgency initiative, 'Human Terrain Systems', under which social scientists are embedded with combat troops.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 84 minutes

If You Can Ever Get Back

US army combat medics who served in Iraq's “triangle of death" struggle to find their place in the civilian world and to lay to rest their wartime ghosts

GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 100 minutes