Topic: Afghan War

Direction Mayte Carrasco · Marcel Mettelsiefen

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (2020). 4 Episodes. Look at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan....

Direction Matthew Heineman

Synopsis The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.

Direction Nora Twomey

Synopsis Based on the best-selling novel by Deborah Ellis, 'The Breadwinner' tells the story of a headstrong young girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family. It is a universal tale of self-empowerment and creativity...

Direction Phil Grabsky · Shoaib Sharifi

Cast Tony Blair · Lyse Doucet · Robert Gates · Hamid Karzai

Synopsis A real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.

Direction Éléonore Weber

Cast Nathalie Richard

Synopsis To shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Eléonore Weber's documentary is exclusively based upon footage recorded by French and American soldiers in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. From the top...

Direction Alex Gibney

Synopsis The persecution of an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan is used to exemplify torture practices used by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.

Direction Jamie Roberts

Synopsis Never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of Afghan citizens after the Taliban seized the city.

Direction Pieter-Jan De Pue

Cast Gholam Nasir · Marina Golbahari · Koko Ewas · Koko Mullalih

Synopsis A gang of Afghan kids from the Kuchi tribe dig out old Soviet mines and sell the explosives to children working in a lapis lazuli mine. When not dreaming of the time when American troops finally withdraw from their land,...

Direction Susanne Bier

Cast Connie Nielsen · Ulrich Thomsen · Nikolaj Lie Kaas · Bent Mejding

Synopsis Brother is a family melodrama gradually spiralling into a drama of deeper echoes. A tale of brothers whom, in war, pain and love, merge into a triangle of unforeseeable consequences. Michael has everything under control: a successful military career, a...

Direction Atiq Rahimi

Cast Abdul Ghani · Jawan Mard Homayoun · Kader Arefi · Guilda Chahverdi

Direction Jean-Patrick Benes · Marc Victor · Allan Mauduit · Frédéric Berthe

Cast Gilbert Melki · Simon Abkarian · Fayçal Azizi · Benjamin Bellecour

Synopsis Afghanistan 2005. Kaboul Kitchen (a french restaurant) is the place to drink in Kabul. Jacky, the owner, is here to make money. His new roommate, his daughter, is here to save people.

Direction Dan Krauss

Synopsis In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers "The Kill Team" following reports of its killing for sport while stationed in Afghanistan. Two years later, Dan Krauss examines this heinous war crime from the perspective of...

Direction Sonia Kennebeck

Synopsis 'National Bird' describes the dramatic experiences of three former US Air Force analysts who have decided to break their silence about the secret deployment of the combat drones in Afghanistan.

Direction Jon Sistiaga

Cast Jon Sistiaga

Direction Richard Rowley

Synopsis Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill chases down the truth behind America’s covert wars. Dirty Wars follows reporter Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond. With a strong...

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal · Dar Salim · Antony Starr · Alexander Ludwig

Synopsis Followed by Sergeant John, who on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed, who risks his own life to carry an injured John across miles of grueling terrain to safety.

Direction Janus Metz Pedersen

Synopsis In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young...

Direction Jon Alpert · Ellen Goosenberg Kent · Matthew O'Neill

Synopsis With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn...

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal · Natalie Portman · Tobey Maguire · Mare Winningham

Synopsis Remake of Susanne Bier's "Brothers (Brødre)" (2004). A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. Brothers tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill and younger brother Tommy Cahill,...

Direction Tobias Lindholm

Cast Pilou Asbæk · Tuva Novotny · Dar Salim · Søren Malling

Synopsis Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus' wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children...