My Country, My Country (2006)

Directed by

Laura Poitras

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows an Iraqi doctor and his family living under American occupation in 2005. It shows the daily realities of war, elections, and the struggle for survival in Baghdad.

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What happens

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras. The film is the first of a trilogy, with the second being The Oath (2010), tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events. The third, Citizenfour (2014), focuses on the NSA's domestic surveillance programs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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