Only the Dead

20152015
TV-MATV-MA
1h 17m

Australian journalist Michael Ware's experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after.Australian journalist Michael Ware's experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after.Australian journalist Michael Ware's experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after.

7.7/10

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Directors
- Bill Guttentag
- Michael Ware
Writers
- Michael Ware
- Bill Guttentag
- Justine A. Rosenthal(additional narration by)
Stars
- Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
- Michael Ware

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Awards
- 7 wins & 6 nominations

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi

Selfas Self

Michael Ware

Self - Narratoras Self - Narrator

Directors
- Bill Guttentag
- Michael Ware
Writers
- Michael Ware
- Bill Guttentag
- Justine A. Rosenthal(additional narration by)
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The Battle for Marjah

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The Fighting Season

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My Fighting Season

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Commando: On the Front Line

Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. Ware handpicked and given a shattering video tape by the most feared, most hated terrorists on the planet to announce his arrival of the world stage sets out on an epic journey into the deepest recesses of the conflict as he seeks answers. Answers that he thinks will lead him to the Truth.

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Quotes
Michael Ware: Certain dark chambers of the heart, once opened, can never be closed again. Or so a soldier wrote after serving here. I know this is what Zarqawi had done to so many of us, to the Americans, to the Iraqis, to me... showed us recesses in our souls we never knew we had.

Soundtracks
Lonely Boy
Performed The Black Keys
Written by Dan Auerbach, Patrick J. Carney & Danger Mouse (as Brian Burton)
Published by GAGA Music Publishing / Universal Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Courtesy of Nonesuch Records, licensed by Warner Music Australia Pty Ltd

Top review

10/10

The most confronting film

This is the most confronting and in your face film I have ever seen. Documenting 7 years living in Iraq as a war correspondent for TIME and CNN, Michael (an Aussie) tells an amazing personal story of how he was nearly beheaded, worked to tell both sides of the Iraq war and his personal struggles. I watched a screening where Michael did a Q&A afterward, his insightful, concise and articulate depiction of what he went through, the PTSD, the stories he told and his analysis of Middle East, make this one of the best films. He does the American soldiers justice in this film, it is not a Hollywoodised depiction of the glory of war! This is real war.

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