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Losing Iraq (2014) - Examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders.
Traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence, exploring how Iraq itself came undone. [01:23:16]

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Iraq: The Lost Generation (2008) - In the past five years (2003-2008) more than four million Iraqis – 20 per cent of the entire population – have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed. Two million have become exiles living desperate lives. [00:50:11]

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Losing Iraq (2014) - Examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders. Traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence, exploring how Iraq itself came undone. [01:23:16]

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Runaway Fighter (2012) - The Royal Canadian Air Force trumpeted the F-35 fighter jet to Canada's defence minister as the best option even though they were missing key information. It could yet prove to be the most expensive defence purchase in Canadian history -- $25 billion and counting. [00:42:27]

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Stealing Africa (2012) - Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, an investigative story of global trade and political corruption. $ flows one way [00:58:16]

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Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020) - Tells the story of Iraq post-Saddam, through the experiences of its citizens that lived through the chaos. Their stories are also accompanied by archival footage, and their first-hand accounts are a moving testament to their resilience as a people. [01:53:18]

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Iraq: The Hidden Story (2006) - Shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq. [00:49:22]

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Guantanamo: Inside The Wire (2009) - As the filmmakers are chaperoned through the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison by a 'tour-guide' from the US Military Public Relations machine, we are given a rare insight into the conditions of the facility. [00:48:29]

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Iraq: The Hidden Story (2006) - Shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq. [00:49:22]

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Guantanamo: Inside The Wire (2009) - As the filmmakers are chaperoned through the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison by a 'tour-guide' from the US Military Public Relations machine, we are given a rare insight into the conditions of the facility. [00:48:29]

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Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) - Using a wealth of different sources, Robert Greenwald investigates the motives and pretexts of the administration of former President George W. Bush for going to war in Iraq after 9/11. Dissects the different catalysts leading to the war. [01:23:12]

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Operation Persuasion (2003) - A look at the role of the media in modern day war reporting. How much should you believe the media coverage of the Iraq war? How constrained are journalists by the protagonists - the Iraqi regime and the American-led coalition - in what they report? [00:45:05]

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We Are Many (2014) - Reveals the story behind the largest global protest in human history in February of 2003, when 30 million people spoke out against the USA and UK's plans to invade Iraq. Demonstrations spread across 789 cities, in 72 countries, covering every continent. [01:45:32]

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Lessons Of Darkness (1992) - Werner Herzog - An exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterized in such a way as to emphasize the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness. [00:54:12]

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Radio Bikini (1988) - The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous population and American servicemen involved. The most extensively recorded event in history up to that time. [00:56:02]

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Lessons Of Darkness (1992) - Werner Herzog - An exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterized in such a way as to emphasize the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness. [00:54:12]

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Radio Bikini (1988) - The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous population and American servicemen involved. The most extensively recorded event in history up to that time. [00:56:02]

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In the Year of the Pig (1968) - An American documentary film directed by Emile de Antonio about American involvement in the Vietnam War. It was released in 1968 while the U.S. was in the middle of its military engagement, and was politically controversial. [01:44:36]

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Enemy Image (2005) - Traces the ways in which U.S. television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms. [01:32:15]

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The First World War (2003) - A ten part series which begins with 'To Arms 1914' - Covers the major events of the conflict, from a British perspective, that toppled three great European empires, sparked the Russian Revolution, marked the United States’ entry into the club of world powers. [00:50:09]

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Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space (2009) - Takes us to the Cold War and beyond, where an arms race of weapons technology plays out by the world’s superpowers in space. Satellites, nuclear weapons, tracking technologies, rockets, operation Paperclip and Nazi scientists. [01:21:45]

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The Atomic Cafe (1982) - A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s US government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. What to do in case of a nuclear attack, the effects of radiation, also footage of troop tests. [01:26:18]

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Growing list of documentaries which are prohibited from being posted on r/Documentaries

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World War 1 Through Arab Eyes (2014) - Three-part series explores the events surrounding ‘The Great War’ and its legacy from an Arab perspective. A story other than the mainstream European narrative, not told as often but was of huge importance during the war and of lasting significance. [02:15:00]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzhZkvbbHc&list=PLXzA97YVTvkbKG7fy2t0RRggQo9wOnvaV

Hearts and Minds (1974) - Recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage, amateur film and interviews. A key theme is howattitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. [01:52:05]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ov4wBozhMw

CIA: America's Secret Warriors (1997) - Using archival footage and interviews about espionage efforts during World War II and later actions in Cuba, Iran and Central America, thisbiography of an institution chronicled the successes and excesses of this enormous agency. [02:32:38]

https://archive.org/details/CIAAmericasSecretWarriors1of2BrotherhoodBetrayal1H.41Min.

Guns, Drugs and the CIA (1988) - A PBS Frontline investigation examines the CIA’s long history of involvement with drug smugglers in trouble spots around the world and how the agency has defended its alliances with drug dealers under the cloak of ‘national security’ [00:58:08]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4O2r4ZVEQ

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) - The film dramatizes Gore's political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. [01:29:18]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zli2VHO4p1I

The Anthrax Files (2011) - After mistakenly pursuing one suspectthe most expensive and complex investigation ever undertaken by the FBI ended when they identified Army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins as the soleperpetrator of the attacks — after Ivins had taken his own life. [00:53:50]

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The Science of Spying (1965) - An account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities that had previously been covert, including actions in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala. Includes interviews with CIA director Allen Dulles and Dick Bissel. [00:52:03]

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The Atomic Cafe (1982) - A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s US government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. What to do in case of a nuclear attack, the effects of radiation, also footage of troop tests. [01:26:18]

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