Dirty Wars (2013) on Netflix
NR20131h 27mCrimeDocumentaryHistory
Jeremy Scahill, an investigative journalist, travels to Afghanistan to look into a night raid. Joint Special Operations Command kills five civilians there, among them two pregnant women.
- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.4/109,570 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
Trailer
Plot summary
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist who wrote Blackwater. A night raid in a remote part of Afghanistan leaves five civilians dead, two of them pregnant women. He travels there to find out what happened and investigates the United States military and the government over the deaths. He looks into the command behind the raid, its covert operations and the secret process by which it selects targets.
Cast
- Nasser Al Aulaqias Self - Interviewee
- Saleha Al Aulaqias Self - Interviewee
- Muqbal Al Kazemias Self - Interviewee
- Abdul Rahman Barmanas Self - Interviewee
- Saleh Bin Fareedas Self - Interviewee
- Andrew Exumas Self - Interviewee
- Abdul Ghafooras Self - Interviewee
- Philip Giraldias Self - Interviewee
- Matthew Hohas Self - Interviewee
- Patrick Langas Self - Interviewee
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dirty Wars (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- While filming in Somalia to meet warlords, Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley had to buy kidnap and ransom insurance from a company in another country, because no American insurer would cover them.
- Dirty Wars had no budget: Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley first traveled to Afghanistan on money from a grant Scahill had received to support his reporting, and only settled on their subject after looking into JSOC night raids.
- Dirty Wars was not meant to have Jeremy Scahill as narrator or protagonist; David Riker was brought in to help write after an initial four-hour rough cut, and convinced Scahill and Richard Rowley to make the film more personal.
