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To Sell a War is a documentary film, first aired in December 1992 as part of CBC programme The Fifth Estate.The programme was directed and produced by Neil Docherty. [1]It chronicles the Citizens for a Free Kuwait campaign efforts to spin public relations sentiment in the United States in favor of the Gulf War, focusing on the story of Nurse Nayirah, who was, in fact, Nayirah al-Sabah, the ...
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] The film was the winner of the 2005 Hall of Fame Award from Giant Screen Cinema Association. [2] The documentary focuses on the international effort to extinguish Kuwait's burning oilfields in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog.The film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, portrayed in a manner that accentuates the catastrophic and surreal nature of the landscape. [1]
Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.
Live from Baghdad is a 2002 American television war drama film directed by Mick Jackson and co-written by Robert Wiener, based on Wiener's book of the same title. The film premiered on HBO on December 7, 2002, during the prelude stage of the Iraq War. Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf ...
The Heroes of Desert Storm is a 1991 American film that told the story of the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. A docudrama, it was presented as addressing the topic from the point of view of several participants. [1] The film was directed in cooperation with the Bush administration. [2]
The Fire This Time originated when Wakefield and co-writer Miriam Ryle traveled to Iraq in order to film a follow-up to Ryle's documentary Voices in Iraq.Their footage, including an interview with U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Hans-Christof von Sponeck critical of the sanctions on Iraq, was rejected by the BBC and Channel 4, with BBC World responding that they "do not accept rant pieces".
Line of Fire is a film documentary produced by Cromwell Productions that shows historical battlefields presented in an animated ... The Gulf War [4] [5] References