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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Film characters introduced in 2011 (24 P) A. 2011 in American cinema (25 P) ... Film series introduced in 2011 (5 C, 10 P) 2011 in South Korean cinema ...
The battle was the biggest Taliban offensive of 2011, marking over 40 total deaths and over 50 total wounded. The fighting demonstrated that, despite heavy losses since 2001, the Taliban forces remain a threat to coalition and Afghan forces, and show that morale in insurgent groups has not died since the killing of Osama bin Laden .
Afghanistan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since 2002, following the fall of the country's previous Taliban government. . The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
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.