Iraqi actress and filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour, who stars in the Locarno Festival screener “Baghdad in My Shadow,” by Iraqi-born Swiss filmmaker Samir, is making her first independent feature documentary ...

The explorer, author, photographer, diplomat and stateswoman Gertrude Bell was the subject of a well-intentioned but starchy biopic earlier this year, with Nicole Kidman doing her regal best to infuse ...

After watching the documentary “Letters From Baghdad” by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, you might be forgiven for wondering why David Lean, when mulling over making a film about British influence ...

NPR correspondent Anne Garrels shares her unique experiences as one of the few non-embedded journalists who stayed in Baghdad during the Iraq war, and other stories from her recently published memoir, ...

Gertrude Bell is likely the most accomplished foreign diplomat you’ve never heard of. “Letters From Baghdad” is not a documentary about the current state of the Middle East but rather a look at its ...

Letters from Baghdad is showing from Sunday July 2nd to Thursday July 6th at the Denver Film Society at the Sie FilmCenter. There will be a Q&A with director Zeva Oelbaum after the 7:30pm screening on ...

Check out the above exclusive clip from the new Vice documentary, Heavy Metal in Baghdad. The documentary follows the only metal band in the war state, Acrassicauda. Here is a brief writeup from the ...

Influential Arabist Gertrude Bell is brought to life in a carefully researched documentary that features a wealth of archival footage accompanied by Tilda Swinton’s voiceover. After the misfire of ...

The Documentary Channel has acquired Incident in New Baghdad, an Oscar-nominated film chronicling the 2007 shooting of two Reuters journalists in Baghdad, according to company president James Ackerman ...

Iraqi actress and filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour, who stars in the Locarno Festival screener “Baghdad in My Shadow,” by Iraqi-born Swiss filmmaker Samir, is making her first independent feature documentary ...