War of Lies

November. 22,2014

Rating：

6.9

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Iraq War

Trailer Synopsis Cast

War of Lies is the story of an Iraqi refugee, whose information about portable weapons of mass destruction passed through the hands of the BND, MI6 and CIA. This information was ultimately used by the US government to legitimize the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Today we know the war was based on a lie. The press blamed Rafed Ahmed Alwan, he, though, proudly presents himself as the man who helped remove Saddam Hussein. Was Alwan really able to walk all over the worlds intelligence services and how did this lie become a convenient truth?

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Reviews

Baseshment

2014/11/22

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Taraparain

2014/11/23

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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Aneesa Wardle

2014/11/24

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Cissy Évelyne

2014/11/25

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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grayswolfwind

2014/11/26

The director puts too many personal ideology on asking questions to Rafed Ahmed Alwan. Very strongly presumsion that Rafed Ahmed Alwan is evil and should fell shame for his action. I do not think the film presents a balance point of view on documantary Iraq war.

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