Topic: Gulf War

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been...

Direction Frank Pierson

Cast Troy Garity · Lee Pace · André Braugher · Shawn Hatosy

Plot The true story of a young soldier who falls in love with a transgendered nightclub performer.

Direction Sam Mendes

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal · Jamie Foxx · Peter Sarsgaard · Chris Cooper

Plot Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait. Marine Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford (Gyllenhaal) is...

Direction Ronit Elkabetz · Shlomi Elkabetz

Cast Ronit Elkabetz · Albert Iluz · Yaël Abecassis · Simon Abkarian

Plot Set in Israel in 1991, the film centres on the Ohaion family who are mourning the death of one of their relatives. In keeping with tradition, the close relatives gather...

Direction David O. Russell

Cast George Clooney · Mark Wahlberg · Ice Cube · Spike Jonze

Plot During the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, three American soldiers (Clooney, Wahlberg, and Cube) in Saudia Arabia are eager to get home. However, after finding a treasure map that...

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Denzel Washington · Meryl Streep · Liev Schreiber · Anthony Mackie

Plot This is a remake of the 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury, which was about a Korean War veteran who was brainwashed by...

Direction Lee Tamahori

Cast Dominic Cooper · Ludivine Sagnier · Raad Rawi · Philip Quast

Plot Based on actual events, The Devil’s Double recounts the remarkable tale of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi army lieutenant who was summoned to Saddam Hussein’s palace in 1987 and ordered to...

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Steve Nicolson · Rick Warden · Richard Graham

Plot This is the true story of the most highly decorated British patrol since the Boer war: an eight man SAS team inserted behind Iraqi lines during the Gulf War in...

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Michael Keaton · Helena Bonham Carter · Joshua Leonard · Lili Taylor

Plot This HBO Films production mixes breakneck excitement, biting humor and blistering drama in telling the behind-the-scenes true story of how brash CNN producer Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and his resourceful...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Samuel L. Jackson · Tommy Lee Jones · Guy Pearce · Ben Kingsley

Plot Colonel Terry Childers (Jackson) is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. But now, the country he served so well has...

Direction Jim Abrahams

Cast Charlie Sheen · Lloyd Bridges · Valeria Golino · Brenda Bakke

Direction Raja Menon

Cast Akshay Kumar · Nimrat Kaur · Taranjit Kaur · Sameer Ali Khan

Plot Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar), a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, realizes that he no longer wields...

Direction Edward Zwick

Cast Denzel Washington · Meg Ryan · Lou Diamond Phillips · Scott Glenn

Plot Following the 1991 Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Serling (Denzel Washington) is assigned to review the background of the late Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), who has been posthumously nominated...

Direction Shimon Dotan

Cast Rob Lowe · Gale Hansen · Tracy Griffith · Eb Lottimer

Plot Macho Lawrence 'Larry' Hammer and frailer Dean Mazzoli initially rival as Marines recruits, but become buddies in instructor NCO Bosco's merciless training class. The friends date two girls, but both...

Direction Thomas J. Wright

Cast Jay Mohr · M. Emmet Walsh · Ron Canada · Jane Sowerby

Plot On the 10th anniversary of a battle in the first Gulf War, a veteran experiencing flashbacks and hallucinations reunites with the members of his company.

Direction William Lustig

Cast William Smith · David 'Shark' Fralick · Christopher Ogden · Leslie Neale

Plot Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag...

Direction Daniel Petrie Jr.

Cast Pauly Shore · Andy Dick · Lori Petty · David Alan Grier

Plot Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and Arizona deserts. Shore is cast as Bones,...

Direction Ted Post

Cast Michael Dudikoff · Tommy Hinkley · Steve Inwood · Hana Azoulay-Hasfari

Plot It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.

Direction Elia Suleiman

Cast Elia Suleiman · Robert Harriman · Paul McIsaac · Ella Habiba Shohat

Plot A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world,...

Direction Rod Holcomb

Cast Ted Danson · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Brian Dennehy · Marg Helgenberger

Plot An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.