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Insurgency — Series 1. 2 / 5 Lt Colonel Nate Sassaman and Iraqi civilian Alaa Adel reflect on the Iraqi insurgency.
The battle of Fallujah is told by accounts from journalists, soldiers and civilians.
Jul 13, 2020 · Waleed Nesyif was 18 when George Bush gave Saddam Hussein just 48 hours to leave Iraq. He was, like many Iraqi teenagers at that time, infatuated by the West.
- Simon Russell
- November 24, 2026
- James Bluemel
- November 24, 2021
The series chronologically covers the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein, and its subsequent occupation of Iraq (2003–2011); the first phase of the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006); the Iraqi Civil War (2006–2008); the post-US withdrawal insurgency (2011–2013); and the War ...
Jul 25, 2020 · The five-part documentary series, directed by James Bluemel and narrated by actor Andy Serkis, tells the traumatic tale of the last 17 years in Iraq: the US-UK led invasion, its aftermath and its legacy.
Jul 29, 2020 · Once Upon a Time in Iraq, a new BBC Two five-part documentary series by James Bluemel has been commended, largely in the West, for its perceived ability to challenge myopic views of the Iraq war. The series traces events between 2003, when occupation forces put Iraq in a stranglehold, and 2014, the moment the Islamic State was born.
Jul 13, 2020 · The Iraqi insurgency is examined through Lt Colonel Sassaman’s descent into the darkest regions of his psyche. When Lieutenant Colonel Nate Sassaman arrived in Iraq in 2003, his belief in the task ahead - of delivering democracy and stability to the Iraqi people - was unquestioning.
