The Billion Pound Base: Dismantling Camp Bastion
2014 · Documentary
Documentary that follows the men and women whose job it was to pack up Britain's Camp Bastion base in Afghanistan.
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2001 · ★ 9
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2020 · ★ 8
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Afghan Star
2008 · ★ 6.3
This documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse inhabitants of Afghanistan affords a glimpse into a country rarely seen. Contestants risk their lives to appear on the television show that is a raging success with the public and also monitored closely by the government.
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Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 · ★ 6.9
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
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