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Once Upon a Time in Iraq
8.2·2020·1 Season·English
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With unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of war and life under Isis than they have ever been before.

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BobDole12
Aug 17, 2020

The 2-hour condensation (broadcast on Frontline in America, maybe elsewhere) of the original 5-hour BBC Two series. It's not a bad abridgement, it's fine, gets a lot of the feel of the original but having watched the 5-parter first (and checking this out out of curiosity) the 5-parter really let the interviews breath better, allowing different strands of various interviews to weave together better, this is lost in cutting out 3 hours of interviews. The organization of the 5-parter is also better (1 hour each organized into "War," "Insurgency," "Fallujah," "Saddam," and "Legacy") than the 11 sections that sort of forces a stricter chronological template on this to its detriment. Most of the original interviewees are present here though it cuts out at least 2 journalists (who added _a lot_ of useful background and context to the country, society, and politics of Iraq) and a very interesting, colorful soldier. I think it added a minute or two of additional home footage of one of the Iraqis visiting his family after living abroad. It's not bad, but it's missing depth that made the original 5-parter so impactful.

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