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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 .
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.
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 ...
Hooligans At War (documentary, 2011) Norway At War: Mission Afghanistan (TV series, 6 episodes 2011) War for Peace (Swedish TV series, 6 episodes, 2011) Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan (BBC TV series, 6 episodes, 2011–2012) Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart (2 episodes, 2012)
She was soon cast, at the age of 36, as Mark Wahlberg's character's sister in the David O. Russell film The Fighter (2010). [1] McDermott later appeared in two more Russell films, American Hustle (2013) and Joy (2015). [3] In 2015, McDermott played Benedict Cumberbatch's wife in the critically acclaimed crime drama film Black Mass . [3]
On 13 September 2011, just after noon, four to six insurgents left a car at a checkpoint at Abdul Haq square and entered a nine-floor partly constructed building near Kabul's diplomatic district. [1] They were armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s and suicide vests. They fired rockets at the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters. [2]
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.
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 ...