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Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger. Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth , it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill 's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob .
Experimental/Arthouse short film: 2017: Black Kite: Leena Alam, Haji Gul Aser| A Letter to the President: Leena Alam, Mamnoon Maqsoodi| Faceless: Ali Akbar Kamal: Humayoon Shams Khan, Rahmatullah Khostai, Farahnaz Nawab: Action: First Afghan superhero film: 2019: Jirga: Benjamin Gilmour: Amir Shah Talash, Sam Smith, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad ...
Afghan Luke is a 2011 Canadian war drama film directed by Mike Clattenburg. [1] The central character, Luke Benning (), is a journalist investigating the possible mutilation (by Canadian snipers) of corpses in Afghanistan, a country that appears increasingly incomprehensible and surreal as Luke undergoes a series of bizarre adventures.
On 8 November 2013, [2] [3] [4] Marines B and C were acquitted, [2] [5] but Blackman (Marine A) was initially found guilty of murder of the Afghan insurgent, [2] in contravention of section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006. [4] This made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since the Second ...
A total of 560 ISAF troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2011, the second highest annual total since the war began in 2001. Four-hundred seventeen were from the US and 45 from the UK. [72] The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented 3,021 civilian deaths in 2011 compared with 2,790 in 2010 and 2,412 in 2009. Most deaths were caused by ...
The completed film Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death was shown on national German television in December 2002. US Department of State spokesmen protested the screening of the film in Germany, stating, "The claims are completely false that American soldiers were involved in the torture, execution and disappearance of Taliban prisoners. In no ...
The Mano Gai or Manogi airstrike was the killing of Afghan children in Mano Gai, Dara-I-Pech District, Kunar province, Afghanistan on March 1, 2011. [1] [2] [3]Nine boys aged 8–14 were killed by gunfire from NATO helicopters while collecting firewood for their family.
An eight-day film festival was launched on August 3, 2019, showcasing 100 films around different cinemas in the country in celebration of the country's 100th anniversary of independence. In 2019, the documentary The Forbidden Reel , [ 8 ] which details the history of Afghan cinema through interviews and archives, was released.