Giorgio Mattia: From Kosovo to Iraq
2014 · 12m · Documentary · War
Giorgio Mattia describes his experiences during the second attack on the Italian Army in Nasiriya, Iraq 2006.
More Like This
Red Flower
1950 · ★ 6.2
Story of Yugoslav prisoners of war in Germany during Second World War. Based on the novel “Farewell in October” by Oto Bihalji-Merin.
More info →
The Mystery of the Warrior Queens of Assyria
2024 · ★ 7
In northern Iraq lie the ruins of a 3,000-year-old city, Nimrud, once the capital of the powerful Assyrian Empire. In 1988, archaeologists conducted excavations beneath one of the palaces and uncovered a vaulted room filled with bronze cups, lamps, and ceramic jars, which led to an untouched chamber laden with precious objects. A stone sarcophagus, still intact, contained an impressive amount of jewelry: the treasures of this burial site surpassed those found in Tutankhamun’s tomb. The bodies of two women, placed one on top of the other, were also exhumed. Presumably of high rank, who were they?
More info →
The Secret of Blood Island
1964 · ★ 9
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
More info →
Live from Baghdad
2002 · ★ 6.7
A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
More info →
Love Camp 7
1969 · ★ 4
Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
More info →
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959 · ★ 6.2
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
More info →
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968 · ★ 6.2
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
More info →
Major Dundee
1965 · ★ 6.7
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
More info →
Iraq in Fragments
2006 · ★ 6.6
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed, poetically rendered documentary of the war-torn country as seen through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
More info →
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016 · ★ 6
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
More info →
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · ★ 8.4
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
More info →
Sisters Apart
2021 · ★ 6
Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.
More info →