"History isn’t repeating itself, but it’s rhyming," Alia Shawkat told Newsweek while talking about her new movie, Atropia.

The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction, ...

There's been a surge in Iraq and a surge of Iraq movies here at home (see links below). It might be working in Baghdad but it's tanking at the local cineplex. We talk to the director of In the Valley ...

Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is portrayed in movies and TV shows. He looks at the realism of sniper battles in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" (2014), starring ...

Kirsten Dunst will play US relief worker Marla Ruzicka in an as-yet-untitled upcoming movie about the war in Iraq. Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to a book about her ...

In a paper she published last year, American University's Pat Aufderheide estimated that there have been dozens of Iraq documentaries released since the war began in 2003. To make sense of this ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is portrayed in movies and TV shows. He looks at the realism of sniper battles in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" (2014), starring ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Zaid Fadhel has spent $800,000 to realize a dream of reviving cinemas in Iraq after decades of dictatorship that shut movie houses and fear of bombings that kept ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Hurt Locker," an independent movie about a team of American bomb-disposal experts serving in Iraq, was named the year's best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An art-school dropout is directing Iraq's first feature-length movie in more than a decade, shooting it with film he ``liberated'' from Saddam Hussein's culture ministry during ...

The film, currently playing at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, opens in the U.S. on Feb. 7 and is Iran's big contender for an Academy Award. Ghobadi recently spoke with NEWSWEEK's Marie Valla ...