Battle for Haditha (2007) on Netflix
In November 2005, Kilo Company's Marines are in Haditha, Iraq, where insurgents plant a roadside bomb. An Iraqi family and Hiba, a young Iraqi woman, are caught in the middle.
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Plot summary
The story is set in Haditha, a city in Iraq's western Al Anbar province, in November 2005, during the Iraq War, and is drawn from the Haditha killings. Kilo Company's Marines operate in the city, among them Cpl. Matthews, Cpl. Ramirez, Cpl. Marcus and Sgt. Ross, with Capt. Sampson in command and Doc, a Navy corpsman, attached to the company. Insurgents plant a roadside bomb, and the Marines fall into an ambush in which a Marine is killed. Three strands carry the narrative: Kilo Company's Marines, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents. Hiba, a young Iraqi woman, is caught in the middle.
Cast
- Matthew Knollas Cpl. Matthews (as Matthew R. Knoll)
- Elliott Ruizas Cpl. Ramirez
- Eric Mehalacopoulosas Sgt. Ross
- Nathan De La Cruzas Cpl. Marcus
- Jase Willetteas Pfc. Cuthbert
- Thomas Hennessyas Doc (as Thomas Hennessy Jr.)
- Falah Abraheem Flayehas Ahmad (as Falah Flayeh)
- Yasmine Hananias Hiba
- Duraid A. Ghaiebas Rashied
- Oliver Bytrusas Jafar
- Aya Abbasas Safa
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Battle for Haditha (2007)
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- Battle for Haditha dramatizes the Haditha killings, which happened three months after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War, when US Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children on 19 November 2005 after an IED killed one Marine and wounded two others.
- After the film was released, the US military controversially dropped all charges against every Marine involved in the Haditha killings.
- Broomfield shot the film in Jerash, Jordan, using former US military personnel and Iraqi refugees in many roles, and shot sequentially so the cast could build their characters as the story progressed.
- Broomfield based the film on his own research and a 6,000-page document on the massacre written by the US Naval Criminal Investigation Service.
- Elliot Ruiz, 22, who plays Corporal Ramirez, was a real-life Marine who had been the youngest US serviceman deployed to Iraq, at 17.
