Nick Broomfield's docu-dramatisation of the massacre of twenty-four men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq, killed by US Marines in retaliation for the death of one of their number in a roadside bomb. Characteristically broad in its approach, following as it does with equal lack of judgement the soldiers, the Iraqi families and the insurgents. A traumatic, gripping and thoughtful re-enactment of events. find out more...

'From the people who brought you 'The Wire'; Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright was embedded with the US Marine Corps 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during 2003, the first year of the second Iraq War. This is his story. find out more...

The tale of our semi-literate, foul mouthed grunts continues; find out more...

The last episode in the first season. find out more...

The Jarheads of the title are a group of young and relatively inexperienced Marines facing their first real combat in the Iraqi war. Sam Mendes' film deals with some familiar dilemmas of the modern battle field, namely; ‘who exactly am I fighting and why?', a question compounded by a heady mixture of fear and the desire to shoot someone. The first hour and a bit is about their confusion and increasing disgruntlement with the lack of clarity of their orders and how tedious the almost 4 months the find out more...

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Another Iraq movie, this time a true story from Samarra about an atrocity committed by US troops. Not exactly gratifying, rape and murder rarely are, the film's narration may 'sympathise' with 'brutalised' squaddies, but the characters portrayed are thoroughly unpleasant. find out more...

 

Adapted from Latif Yahia’s ‘apparently’ autobiographical novel, we follow him through the hedonistic and sadistic world of Saddam Hussein’s infamous son Uday in the late eighties just prior to the first Iraqi ‘conflict’.  Ladif is chosen as Uday’s double and i find out more...