Movies about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan

This is perhaps one of the few propaganda films of the Iraq war, which justifies the American invasion in the Middle East. The plot focuses on a patrol of soldiers who, in an ambush, are trapped in enemy territory Fedayie. Will they die in honor of their flag and for freedom?

November 19, 2005, Hadiza, Iraq. Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged at his loss, his young companions undertake brutal reprisals. Their violent searches house by house originate the killing of 24 people, many of them women and children, tragic casualties of a war that they could not control. Soldiers are also victims, who are attacked, injured and forced to replicate in the way they have been trained. But when events happen at high speed and under conditions of maximum stress, can combatants in the line of fire be accused of murder?

In one of the worst attacks against Westerners in the Middle East, suicide bombers have killed more than one hundred people and injured more than two hundred. All victims are employees, or their relatives, of the Gulf Western company, and lived in the Oasis residential complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While bureaucrats talk about territorial legalities, special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) and members of his elite team - explosives expert Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), coroner Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) and intelligence analyst Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) - are sent on a secret five-day trip to locate who planned the attack. Upon arriving in the desert kingdom, Agent Fleury and his team realize that local authorities consider them as intruders in an internal matter. Tied hand and foot by the protocol, they see how time passes while their Saudi colleagues try to locate the terrorist. Fleury and Colonel Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), charged with protecting Americans, share the same opinion. While helping Fleury's team navigate the country's politics and unravel the tangle of the crime scene, they discover the existence of an extremist cell whose sole purpose is destruction.

A twelve-year-old girl and her mother are driven into misery when, with the arrival of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, they lose their right to work and the possibility of going out alone to the street, since they have no male in The family that watches over them. The girl's mother and grandmother then decide to make her go through a boy, which fills the girl with terror, distressed by what can happen to her if her true identity is discovered. When, in the company of other boys, she is taken to the madrasa, a religious school that is also a military training center for the Taliban, she receives the help of Espandi, a boy who knows who he really is and who gives him a name: Osama.

A former journalist wounded in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to keep track of an Al Qaeda leader in Jordan in this adaptation of the novel "Body of Lies" by David Ignatius, former columnist for international affairs at the newspaper " The Washington Post. " Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best man that the US CIA has, in places where human life is worth no more than the information it can provide. In the operations that take him all over the world, from the Middle East to Washington, his next step depends on the voice on the other side of a secure telephone line - the CIA veteran, Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe). Making war from a laptop in the suburbs, Hoffman keeps track of an emerging terrorist leader who has led a bombing campaign eluding the world's most sophisticated intelligence network. To bring the terrorists to light, Ferris will have to penetrate this murky world, but, the closer he gets to the target, the more he realizes that trust is a dangerous comfort and, at the same time, perhaps the only one that will take him out with lifetime...

In March 1991, Captain Archie Gates, Sergeants Troy Barlow and Chief Elgin, and soldier Conrad Vig kill time in the Iraqi desert as they await the end of the war and return to the boring and hopeless civilian life that awaits them at home. When they discover a map that indicates the location of a Kuwati gold reserve stolen by the Iraqis, the four men decide to start their own war to reach the gold. Along the way they will discover the true living conditions of the Iraqi people, turning their mission into a story of redemption that will change all their points of view and test their humanity.

Two young Britons stationed in Iraq fall apart after losing their captain. Gradually they will get carried away by anger causing mistreatment of many prisoners. Upon returning to England they will find out that some of these photos have been made public ...

The story takes place on the border between Turkey and Iraq just before the US invasion of Iraqi territory. The protagonists are children who live in that dangerous territory and develop an incredible survival instinct.

The plot of "Redacted" revolves around the rape of an Iraqi teenager and the murder of her entire family by a group of American soldiers. Real fact that happened in the Iraqi town of Mahmudiya, in March 2006. As he did two decades ago with "Hearts of Iron", a film in which he narrated the atrocities committed in Vietnam, De Palma again bets on a cinema committed to the one that denounces, in addition to the excesses committed by the soldiers, the censorship of the North American mass media on the warlike conflict.

A command of Turkish intelligence agents enters Iraq to avenge a past episode in the war, where several Turkish soldiers were arrested and tortured by US troops. The film shows something unusual, Muslims like the good guys and the Americans like the bad guys, although always very critical of terrorism ...

Four months after the invasion of Afghanistan, six special forces soldiers and a reporter will meet face to face with an enemy they would never have imagined ...

It tells the story of four American soldiers who are about to finish their mission in Iraq. Shortly after learning that their unit is about to return home, they are sent to a last humanitarian mission to transport medical supplies to an Iraqi village. The unit is the victim of an ambush and suffers serious losses. Survivors will be subjected to cruel physical and psychological aggressions. Once back in the United States, four soldiers will have to face the memories of the past, while also looking at the future and returning to civilian life. These are his stories. Back to hell is a film about hope and courage, and about the impact of war, both on those who were physically there and on their loved ones.

Jason tragically lost his young son when his SUV exploded. Now the fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him constantly remind him of the loss of his son. A virus could create a squad of suicide bombers. Uncertain if he has already been infected by the virus, Jason must fight to decipher the explosions that are real and that are in his head.

4 soccer stars from a high school join the navy to participate in the war against Iraq. When one of them is killed and another is injured, they decide to return home. Those who survive suffer guilt, problems assimilating the return to their habitual lives and a society that seems not to support them. They face the pressure and temptation to meet their fellow Marines on the battlefield as they struggle to blend into civilian life. It is a story about American heroes, their courage, their pain and humanity.

Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), an American war veteran, must investigate the disappearance of his son Mike, a soldier stationed in Iraq who is absent without permission from his base. With the help of Detective Sanders (Charlize Theron) and his wife (Susan Sarandon), he will relive the boy's experiences in Iraq. What he discovers will make him even question his own military career.

The film is about Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) on a mission in Afghanistan. Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) has been captured while trying to supply weapons to the Afghan Mujahideen for their fight against the Soviet Union. Rambo is sent to rescue him, and only Rambo is able to save him from the atrocities of the Soviet occupation. With the help of the Mumboheads, Rambo rescues Trautman and eliminates all Soviet commands in the region.

Three stories show the different points of view in which a war is seen, this time that of Afghanistan, also started in the Middle East in 2001, in order to find Bin Laden. A liar congressman who gives an interview to a journalist; a teacher who tries to motivate his smarter student; and two soldiers in full enemy territory ...

Omar Metwalley was born in Egypt and emigrated with his family to the United States in the mid-80s. After being arrested for being suspected of terrorism, he is sent to secret facilities outside the United States where he is brutally interrogated by the CIA agent Douglas Freeman But his wife will do everything possible to find him ...

Under the statue of the Buddha that destroyed the Taliban, thousands of families still live. Baktay, a six-year-old Afghan girl, is prompted to go to school by her neighbors' son who reads the alphabets in front of her cave. On the way to school, she is harassed by children who play cruelly reflecting the violent society that surrounds them. The children pretend to stone Baktay or destroy her like the Buddha, or shoot her like the Americans did in the maze of caves. Will Baktay be able to overcome these obstacles in order to learn the alphabets in his mother tongue?

Attilio, a dreamy poet is madly in love with Vittoria, a professor who works on the biography of an important Iraqi poet. Vittoria will travel to Iraq to continue his investigation, but Attilio will not let him go alone and more in the middle of the war ...

Hard criticism against the actions of the US army in Iraq. A soldier returns from war to his home in Texas, but when his military commanders force him to return to combat, he refuses ...