War violence, disturbing images, and for pervasive language.
The fate of two cultures becomes locked on a tragic collision course in director Nick Broomfield's dramatization of the events that led to the massacre of 24 Iraqi men, women, and children by American Marines. A squadron of American soldiers goes speeding across the Iraqi desert in a convoy of armored Humvees, eventually stopping at a local store where the soldiers jump out to stretch and browse the DVD selection. Meanwhile, as the Marines strike up a conversation with the young male clerk behind the counter, two Iraqi men climb into the back of a pick-up truck to get a crash course in IED mechanics. Both the Marines and the Iraqis are simply going about their daily business as usual, just doing their best to survive in a land where war is just another fact of life. For the Marines it's all about patrolling the desert and waiting for the next bomb to go off. When a roadside IED kills one Marine and wounds two others, the vengeance with which the American soldiers strike back at the locals may cause even the most hard-line warhawks to take pause and consider the true cost of a war which has no end in sight.
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Matthew Knoll | Cpl. Matthews |
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Elliot Ruiz | Cpl. Ramirez |
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Eric Mehalacopoulos | Sgt. Ross |
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Nathan de la CRUZ | Cpl. Marcus |
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Andrew McLaren | Capt. Sampson |
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Jase Willette | Pfc. Cuthbert |
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Thomas Hennessy | Doc |
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Tony Spencer | Pfc. Roberts |
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Vernon Gaines | Lance Corporal Sosa |
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Antonio Tostado | Lance Corporal Jimenez |
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Ali Adil Disher | Iraqi Translator |
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Yasmine Hanani | Hiba |
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Siham RASHID | Asma |
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Majd Hijjawi | Woman shot in street |
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Falah Abraheem FLAYEH | Ahmad |
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Juliet KOSHABA | Saba |
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Jeffrey NABIL | Ahmad's son |
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Rita NABILE | Ahmad's daughter |
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Oliver Bytrus | Jafar |
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Murtada Namir | Foreign Fighter |
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Ali Salem | Foreign Fighter |
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Fahed Borham | Foreign Fighter |
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Ahmad Ali | Foreign Fighter |
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Aya Abbas | Safa |
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Hanneen Abbas | Huda |
| Director | Nick Broomfield |
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| Writer | Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Anna TELFORD | |
| Producer | Barney Broomfield, Nick Broomfield, Peter Dale, Charles Finch, Shani Hinton, Marc Hoeferlin, Donall McCusker, Anna TELFORD | |
| Musician | Nick Laird-Clowes | |
| Photography | Mark Wolf | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles | English | Spanish |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Dec 30, 2008 |