In the heart of old Baghdad, legendary movie theatres stand abandoned and shrouded in dust, bearing witness to Iraq's once-vibrant cultural scene. Syrian filmmaker Abdulhadi al-Rakeb, who made a ...

The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction, ...

There's been a surge in Iraq and a surge of Iraq movies here at home (see links below). It might be working in Baghdad but it's tanking at the local cineplex. We talk to the director of In the Valley ...

In a paper she published last year, American University's Pat Aufderheide estimated that there have been dozens of Iraq documentaries released since the war began in 2003. To make sense of this ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - They conjured box office magic with their "Bourne" spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller "Green ...

Day after day scores of bodies litter the streets of Baghdad. To staunch the violence, the U.S. has spent billions to “stand up” the Iraqi forces. In Gangs of Iraq, a joint production of FRONTLINE and ...

After winning a Berlinale honor for her debut, the filmmaker premieres her sophomore fiction feature, shot mostly in Jordan and starring Austrian dance performer Florentina Holzinger and Andria Tayeh, ...

Diako Yazdani, an Iranian Kurd and political refugee in France, goes to Iraq accompanied by Kojin, a 23-year-old gay friend, to confront his devout family, friends and other members of the Kurdish ...

There's been a surge in Iraq and a surge of Iraq movies here at home. It might be working in Baghdad but it's tanking at the local cineplex. We talk to the director of In the Valley of Elah, Paul ...