Iraq in Fragments

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Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.

Director
- James Longley
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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Director
- James Longley
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 12 wins & 8 nominations total

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Iraq in Fragments

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Marmar Alhilali

Mohammed Haithem

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Suleiman Mahmoud

Self

Mohamed Qasim Sainakh

Muqtada al-Sadr

Self
(uncredited)

George W. Bush

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Trivia
300 hours of material was filmed in Iraq over a period of more than two years for this production. 1600 pages of typed transcripts, translations of material from Arabic and Kurdish, were made before picture and sound editing could begin.

Connections
Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)

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Featured review

10/10

Of all the films about Iraq, this is clearly the finest

There are a lot of documentary films about Iraq now. Most of them are about US soldiers in Iraq -- and that's fine. But those films are really more about the US experience than about Iraq as a country.

What IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS does is show the country, the people, that the US has occupied. And it does so with such beauty. I have never seen such a gorgeous documentary as this. The cinematography will knock your socks off. And so will the access Longley has to his film subjects, which is amazing. It's almost like the camera is totally invisible, floating in the air around the people in this film. When the lights came up I was sad; I just wanted it to keep going. Watching this film is like being placed inside Iraq, like magic.