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Only the Dead (2015)
Description
Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, travels to Baghdad during the invasion. As he tries to find out about a brutal Al Qaeda leader, he receives a tape from Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, travels to Baghdad during the invasion. As he tries to find out about a brutal Al Qaeda leader, he receives a tape from Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Actors:
Michael Ware,
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi,
Michael Ware
Michael Ware
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
20 October 1966, Zarqa, Jordan
Michael Ware
Genre:
Biography, Documentary, History
Director:
Bill Guttentag ,
Michael Ware
Bill Guttentag
1 October 1958, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Michael Ware
Country:
International
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October 14, 2015
This is to the Iraq war what Night and Fog was to the Second World War, and it must be seen in spite of itself.
February 18, 2016
There are scenes here that you can't unsee, much as you might want to.
January 20, 2016
Given this is assembled mostly from his own war correspondents videos, Ware is at the centre of most of the footage and your response to the film will largely depend on your response to him and his true blue blokey personality.
October 25, 2015
Much is learned from Ware's words of haunted experience, mostly that while war is indeed destructive, it can also plant seeds for even more rotten fruit to grow.
January 02, 2017
This visceral, harrowing distillation of Wares seven years on the front line may not break any new ground. But it certainly brings that chaos to life ...
November 06, 2015
Absolutely outstanding, piercing documentary about the war in Iraq pieced together by Australian war correspondent Michael Ware from the seven years' worth of camcorder footage he took... Easily one of the best accounts of the war so far.
March 02, 2016
Only The Dead lacks a consistent self-reflexivity, coming across as a hybrid of simplistic narrative account of the war and personal diary.
October 30, 2015
There are occasions when more information or sustained introspection feels necessary, but there also times when images speak for themselves.