Movies like Dirty Wars

20 movies like Dirty Wars, ordered by similarity : Hidden in Plain Sight(2003), Military Wives(2019), This Is Not a Movie(2019), For Sama(2019), Citizenfour(2014), Armadillo(2010), Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience(2007), Fastest(2011), Love Crimes of Kabul(2011), The Age of Consequences(2016), Shirkers(2018), A Tuba to Cuba(2018) ...

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Dirty Wars

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

A feature length documentary by John H. Smihula

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Military Wives

With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.

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This Is Not a Movie

The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).

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For Sama

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

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Citizenfour

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

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Armadillo

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.

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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A... See full summary »

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Fastest

Shot around the world in 2010 and 2011 and narrated by Ewan McGregor, 'Fastest' captures the intense and thrilling reality of the MotoGP World Championship, documenting a pivotal moment in ... See full summary »

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Love Crimes of Kabul

LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from ... See full summary »

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The Age of Consequences

The 'Hurt Locker' meets 'An Inconvenient Truth', THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES is the Emmy® nominated investigation on how climate change impacts increased resource scarcity, migration and ... See full summary »

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Shirkers

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

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A Tuba to Cuba

A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.

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National Bird

Drone whistleblower interviewed about borderless information gathering by the government.

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The C Word

A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.

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Which Way Home

"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like ... See full summary »

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Free Solo

Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of ... See full summary »

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The Painter and the Thief

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

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Control Room

A documentary on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.

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What Is Democracy?

This reflection on democracy spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens' groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism's roots in medieval Italy.

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