A group of Navy SEALs comes to learn the identity of their target: Osama bin Laden. What does it mean to come home? In my opinion, these are the hundred greatest ever documentaries on human conflicts (and the politics behind them,) mainly dealing with modern wars from the 19th century onwards such as WW1, WW2, Vietnam, The Cold War, American Civil War, Syria and "The War On Terror" I will be adding more documentaries to this list as I watch them. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. British Monster Tanks of World War I & World War II by jmantime. Band of Brothers (2001) 5. Beasts of No Nation (2015) Top 100 Documentary Movies Best of Rotten Tomatoes Movies with 40 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. In the film Dengler discusses his time in service, and revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of Vietcong.From supporting the Bosnian Mujahideen to being imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo, from the rebel training camps in Syria to the prison cells of Belmarsh in Britain, Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict.
HISTORY commemorates the 100th anniversary of World War I with a new four-hour miniseries focusing on the game-changing weapons that were introduced during a transitional time in war history. During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. For a lot of people, having soldiers overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan made them money and lots of it. American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. The Unknown Known. If you want to know what the war is all about, take a look at some of these best war documentaries on YouTube.It is a lot different than those Hollywood movies, that’s for sure.
A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East. In the Year of the Pig constituted a controversial film in a critical historical moment, and remains relevant today.One of Dogwoof’s own, The Most Dangerous Man in America tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon insider who in 1971 decided to challenge Nixon’s Presidency which, answering to neither Congress, the press, nor the people, consistently lied to the public about the Vietnam War.
Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. This is his first-hand account, a chronicle of the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the disastrous reaction of the West.Armadillo follows a group of Danish soldiers during their time in the war in Afghanistan. A psychological study of operations desert shield and desert storm during the gulf war; through the eyes of a U.S marine sniper who struggles to cope with the possibility his girlfriend may be cheating on him back home. This is the TOP list of my Afghanistan/Iraq war movies and not any world war two movies!. As the prison gained notoriety after the circulation of photographs of abuse of the suspected terrorists, their families, and innocent civilians, Errol Morris looks at abuse and torture but also adds another layer by addressing the film’s relation to the photographs, and the potential of photography to inform but also to misdirect.Charles Ferguson’s documentary offers a comprehensive look into the Bush administration’s conduct and processes of decision-making regarding the Iraq war. The film spans events from World War II, to the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Errol Morris once again artfully illustrates the ambiguity and complexity of his character, producing an unsettling documentary about war.Peter Davis’s controversial film looks at the conflicting attitudes of the opponents during the Vietnam War.
A list of 35 Modern War Movies. Even though war is hated by me I nonetheless watch the many documentaries about war offered on Amazon Prime, most particularly documentaries about World War Two. Military and War Sort by: The Secret History of ISIS. First on the list has to be The Unknown Known which inspired our first edition of must see war documentaries. The “Invisible War” documentary focuses on the position of women in the US army. First on the list has to be The Unknown Known which inspired our first edition of must see war documentaries. We are getting very excited about our upcoming release of The Unknown Known in March. Tracing parallels between the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, he provides a controversial examination of myth-making processes and the construction of a threatening “Other” as an attempt to create cohesion and unity within the US public. Documentaries can be a hard sell, but it’s one that’s getting easier all the time. In anticipation of Errol Morris’s new documentary, shedding light on one of the architects of the Iraq war, former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, here are 10 Must-See Docs on Modern War. The film was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary.Winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and heralded as possibly the best war film ever made, Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan’s hostile Korengal Valley . In fact, it doesn’t even attempt to offer up a commentary, and in doing so we’re given an alarmingly honest portrayal of the Afghan conflict courtesy of those embroiled in it. Conflict Covered: Afghanistan WarRotten Tomatoes Score: 98%Why It’s So Good: A powerhouse example of cinema verite, Restrepo never falls afoul of the common war documentary pitfall of becoming bogged down in political point making. The Most Destructive Tank In World War 2 - Panzer Tank Documentary - Military Documentary Channel by Military Documentary Channel. Schindler's List (1993) 4.
Armadillo became the source of much debate in Denmark following release because of controversial actions of the soldiers.