Peshmerga (2016)
• June 8th, 2016 • 1h 32min
Documentary
Overview
From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfinished war with a global impact. Alongside the Peshmergas – Kurdish fighters imbued with a spirit of unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar mountains, passing the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction along the way. A tale peopled by real characters, men and women whose faces are rarely seen...
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Captives
Released on: 2016-03-15
Documentary, War, Drama, Adventure
The search for a government soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv takes protester Sashk...
Aghet
Released on: 2010-04-09
Documentary, History
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
Crustaceans
Released on: 2014-07-02
Documentary, Drama
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...
The War Around Us
Released on: 2014-01-21
Documentary
In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the...
Here and Elsewhere
Released on: 1976-09-15
Documentary
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...
Corpsman
Released on: 2017-10-08
Documentary
Exploring the relationship between woman and dog, CORPSMAN shows the impact a service dog has on one...
But... Seriously
Released on: 1994-03-25
Documentary
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Released on: 2020-11-26
Documentary
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While t...
Battle of Midway: The True Story
Released on: 2019-11-11
Documentary
It's June 1942 and the world's fate is about to be decided by a handful of pilots and their untested...
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary, History
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
Accidental Anarchist
Released on: 2017-07-23
Documentary
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...
History is Marching
Released on: 2018-12-08
Documentary, History
History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major pow...
We Are Many
Released on: 2014-06-08
Documentary
The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, aga...
Safeguarding Military Information
Released on: 1942-01-16
Documentary
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military info...
The Fog of War
Released on: 2003-10-26
Documentary, TV Movie, History, War
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
Blue Helmet
Released on: 1995-07-03
Documentary
A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, ...
Colombia in My Arms
Released on: 2022-11-30
Documentary
After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange f...
Art as a Weapon
Released on: 2014-06-12
Adventure, Documentary
Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to c...
The Pity of War
Released on: 2014-02-28
Documentary, History, War
Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...