Top 10 Best Iraq War Movies



10. The Messenger, 2008
The Messenger is a 2007 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Çagan Irmak, which follows a man who travels from village to village to tell children stories about a messenger named Ibrahim.

9. The Tiger and the Snow, 2005
La tigre e la neve is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni. The film is a romantic comedy set in contemporary Rome and in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War.

8. Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, 2006
Valley of the Wolves: Iraq is a 2006 Turkish action film directed by Serdar Akar and starring Necati Sasmaz, Billy Zane and Ghassan Massoud.

7. No True Glory: Battle for Fallujah, 2009

6. Stop Loss, 2008
Stop-Loss is a 2008 American drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films.

5. Battle for Haditha, 2007
Battle for Haditha is a 2007 drama film directed by British director Nick Broomfield based on the Haditha killings. Dramatising real events using a documentary style, Battle for Haditha is Broomfield's follow up to Ghosts.

4. Body of Lies, 2008
Body of Lies is a 2008 American action-spy film directed by Ridley Scott. Set in the Middle East, it follows the attempts of the CIA and Jordanian Intelligence to catch "al-Saleem", a jihadist.

3. Green Zone, 2010
Green Zone is a 2010 British-French-American war thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Brian Helgeland, based on a 2006 non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The book documented life within the Green Zone in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq

2. The Hurt Locker, 2008
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about a three-man Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War.

1. Generation Kill, American television miniseries
Generation Kill is a British-American television miniseries produced for HBO, based on the 2004 book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon, Ed Burns and Evan Wright.[1] The series premiered on July 13, 2008. It was produced by Andrea Calderwood.