"History isn’t repeating itself, but it’s rhyming," Alia Shawkat told Newsweek while talking about her new movie, Atropia.
The 2008 film on the Iraq war, deemed too pro-military at the time, has now been labeled antiwar. Can both be true?
That's one reason Iraq may go down as the documentary war. Quietly but steadily, a body of inexpensive, do-it-yourself documentaries has begun to provide long-term perspectives of what it's like to be ...
There are embedded journalists in Iraq, and then there is "Iraq in Fragments" director James Longley. Longley, who takes war coverage far beyond the cable news channels' talking heads, collected 300 ...
The sniper rifle clicks as a bullet flies through its barrel and eliminates the target more than half a mile away. Dust flies as the body of the target falls motionlessly to the hard ground beneath ...
This 2024 documentary collaboration between WBIR-TV and KGW-TV revisits citizen soldiers we first met two decades ago in training and subsequently embedded with during their deployment to the war in ...
The war in Iraq has forever changed the war documentary. No longer confined to newsreel-style views from a distance, the Iraq films get up-close and personal with the troops, providing views of the ...
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. During the subsequent eight years, the U.S. spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives fighting an ...
Yesterday afternoon, Prof. John Pilger, a Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, addressed his first "class" at Cornell. His classroom, the Cornell Cinema Theater in the Straight, was filled with ...
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 ...
Long-time talk show host Phil Donahue wants America to take a long look at what the Iraq War is doing to its young men and women. Body of War, which Donahue produced and co-directed with Ellen Spiro, ...
Juan Cole: Internet And War On Terror is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon ...