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Only the Dead

  • 20152015
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 1h 17m
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Only the Dead (2015)
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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.
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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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  • 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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    • 21User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 6 nominations

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    Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
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    • Directors
      • Bill Guttentag
      • Michael Ware
    • Writers
      • Michael Ware
      • Bill Guttentag
      • Justine A. Rosenthal(additional narration by)
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    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.
    • iraq war
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    • australian abroad
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    • Genres
      • Documentary
      • Biography
      • History
      • War
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      • TV-MA
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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.

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      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

    User reviews21

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    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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    • Oct 25, 2015

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    • Release date
      • February 15, 2016 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • Australia
      • Iraq
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Only the Dead See the End of War
    • Filming locations
      • Iraq
    • Production companies
      • Penance Films
      • Wolfhound Pictures
      • Screen Australia
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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