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Iraq has held its fifth election since the US-led invasion in 2003. The government is portraying the election as fulfilling the public demand for change but protesters denounce it as neither free nor fair.

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Yazidi Return

Iraq | 2021

Seven years ago an attack from the Islamic State forced 100,000 Yazidis to flee their homes in northern Iraq to Mount Sinjar, where they were trapped for days. What is life like for the survivors?

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Assassins of Iraq

Iraq | 2021

In one of his last interviews, Hisham Al Hashimi, Iraq’s foremost security expert, described the resurgence of IS as an al-Qaeda-like insurgency. Three weeks after this interview, on July 6th 2020, Al Hashimi was murdered in front of his home in Baghdad. This incident caused shockwaves – and revealed that Iraq is once more a nation in a state of crisis: its fragile status as an independent, secu…

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Baghdad Cop

Iraq | 2020

Unprecedented access into Baghdad’s police force reveals the extraordinary life of Major Aziz Nasser, trouble-shooter for Baghdad’s Chief of Police. Decades of bloodshed have left the region’s infrastructure in ruins, and the Baghdad police force struggles to hold the city together. In the midst of it all is Major Aziz Nasser, an idealist who’s trying to restore their battered reputation amidst t…

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Baghdad Rising

Iraq | 2020

Since October 1st 2019, protests in Iraq have spread across the country. Young men and women have come to the streets to protest against government corruption and the meddling of both America and Iran inside their country.

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Sidik and the Panther

Iraq | 2019

Sidik has spent the last twenty-five years searching for a Persian leopard in the genocide-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. If he can capture one of these magical creatures on film, the rugged region will be declared a national park and the bombs will never fall again. Sidik still hasn’t found his leopard, but he refuses to give up. Acclaimed director Reber Dosky guides us through…

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Iraq's Secret Sex Trade

Iraq | 2019

This powerful investigation into Shia clerics in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite. For the first time the clerics' secret sex trade has been captured on camera. Undercover filming and victim testimony reveal how they procure young women for male clients, and are prepared to co…

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Mystery Crop Fires

Iraq | 2019

As Iraq fights to achieve food self-sufficiency, unexplained crop fires are ruining thousands of acres of farmland. The government points to natural causes, but is it arson, and if so, who's to blame?

Election Protest

Iraq | 2021

Yazidi Return

Iraq | 2021

Assassins of Iraq

Iraq | 2021

Baghdad Cop

Iraq | 2020

Baghdad Rising

Iraq | 2020

Sidik and the Panther

Iraq | 2019

Iraq's Secret Sex Trade

Iraq | 2019

Mystery Crop Fires

Iraq | 2019