Battle for Haditha (2007)
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67% of critics liked it
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71% of users liked it
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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… More 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. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Rating, Runtime
- R, 1 hr. 33 min.
- Directed By
- Nick Broomfield
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
- In Theaters
- Dec 14, 2007 Wide
- On DVD
- Dec 30, 2008
- Studio
- HanWay Films
Critic Reviews
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Lacking in subtlety and nuance, Broomfield's nerve-jangling movie nonetheless succeeds in showing the war from various vantage points. And from wherever one's standing, the view is profoundly disturbing.
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Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic
Films about the Iraq war continue to come and, I hope, will keep coming. Among the most recent, The Battle for Haditha is especially notable.
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Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
It might just be the movie this war has been waiting for.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
In Battle for Haditha the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. marines in November 2005 is still so clouded by cover-up that the last thing anyone needs now is an improvised drama about the tragedy by UK gonzo documentarian Nick Broomfield.
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Cast
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Elliot Ruizas Cpl. Ramirez -
Falah Abraheem Flayehas Ahmad -
Yasmine Hananias Hiba
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Andrew McClarenas Capt. Sampson -
Eric Mehalacopoulosas Sgt. Ross -
Duraid A. Ghaiebas Rashied
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