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- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
- StarsIgal NaorShohreh AghdashlooMakram KhouryA mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsDominic CooperLudivine SagnierRaad RawiA chilling vision of the house of Saddam. The world of Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was given a choice; either be the double for Saddam's sadistic son, or die.
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsShohreh AghdashlooSalma HayekAdrien BrodyPrior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.
- DirectorVincent ParonnaudMarjane SatrapiStarsChiara MastroianniCatherine DeneuveGena RowlandsA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
- DirectorBobak KalhorStarsAmir Aslan AfsharRobert ArmaoJerry BerlinUncover the mystery of the last Shah of Iran's exile from his country during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, his illness, misdiagnosis, maltreatment and eventual death, and its impact on the Middle East, United States and the world.
- DirectorKoshStarsErvand AbrahamianMadeleine AlbrightShaul Bakhash
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsGordon PinsentChris WigginsDiana BarringtonA dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsArliss HowardJeff FaheyAlice KrigeFollows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
- 2015–20181h 5m7.1 (18)TV EpisodeDirectorTate DonovanStarsMark BowdenClifford BranchGeorge ClooneyThe NFL during the Iran hostage crisis. Includes the story of Alex Paen, a Los Angeles-based reporter stationed in Tehran, who made an audio recording of Super Bowl XIV for the hostages to listen to.
- StarsTed KoppelNightly update of the Iran hostage crisis. The series later evolved into "Nightline."
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJosh BrolinElizabeth BanksIoan GruffuddA chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsJake GyllenhaalJamie FoxxLucas BlackA psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
- DirectorMarco TurcoStarsVittoria PucciniVinicio MarchioniStéphane FreissThe life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWoody HarrelsonJames MarsdenRob ReinerA group of journalists of the Knight-Ridder news service covering President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
- DirectorJim AbrahamsStarsCharlie SheenLloyd BridgesValeria Golino"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.
- StarsAndy SerkisWith unique personal archive from civilians and soldiers from both sides of the conflict, this series takes viewers closer to the realities of war and life under ISIS than they have ever been before.
- DirectorMatthew Michael CarnahanStarsWaleed ElgadiSuhail DabbachAdam BessaA police unit from Mosul fight to liberate the Iraqi city from thousands of ISIS militants.
- StarsAlex JenningsZain UllahDick CheneyTop US, European and Iraqi leaders - political and military - tell the inside story of their private talks, phone calls, deals and clashes. Former members of Saddam Hussein's regime tell - for the first time on television - just what he said to them as the threat of war grew. Over three episodes, the series gets the insiders to tell what happened at crucial moments on the road to war following 9/11, the first year after the invasion as Iraq's liberation became a US occupation and Iraq's descent into civil war and the Americans struggle to turn the country round.
- DirectorStephen FinniganStarsHugo SpeerVic ArmstrongJosephie BurgeThe incredible story of one of the most bizarre films ever made - a disastrous, epic 1980s movie telling the story of the founding of Iraq, which was bankrolled by Saddam Hussein and starring Oliver Reed.
- DirectorKaweh ModiriStarsJasmin TabatabaiMohsen NamjooShabnam Toloui37 years after her daughter was executed in Iran, Haleh finds the woman who betrayed her. The traitor, now a loving mother herself and just arrived in the Netherlands, does not recognize Haleh and trusts her as an older and wiser countryman. While Haleh is plotting her revenge, she gets to know the perpetrator better than she would like to.
- DirectorMark StevensonMark StevensonStarsTim BeckmannHayder AtrakchiNatasha EzrowThrough his brutal use of violence, intimidation and torture Saddam Hussein managed to rule the nation for nearly a quarter of a century until he was finally deposed by US forces during the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- StarsMurtaza ArifWesley LloydJared RogersU.S. diplomats in Iran pose as a Canadian film crew to escape the 1979 hostage crisis.
- DirectorUli EdelThe Israeli Air Force's secret mission to destroy the French-built nuclear reactor near Baghdad. A true story.
- DirectorAnn ShinMY ENEMY, MY BROTHER is the real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian boy who ran away from home to join the army. Najah Aboud was a 19-year old Iraqi who had been conscripted to fight in the war, leaving behind his wife and son. Both men fought in the Iran-Iraq war where Zahed finds Najah injured in a bunker and decides to risk his own life to save him. Zahed kept Najah alive for days, after which Najah was finally taken as a prisoner of war. Their lives diverge and they don't see nor hear of one another for 20 years until one day they meet by sheer coincidence in Vancouver.
- DirectorDrew TaylorLarry WeinsteinStarsAssadollah AlamBob AndersJimmy CarterThe events of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Canada's involvement, especially concerning Ambassador Ken Taylor, are explored.
- DirectorLodovico GaspariniStarsAnna ValleErol SanderMathilda MayBiopic of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979's Islamic Revolution.
- DirectorLeslie WoodheadStarsRoger MuddFarideh MashinieCharles JonesAs It Happened looks at the Iranian Hostage Crisis where hundreds of Islamic students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran. They took the diplomats hostage in a crisis that ended up toppling President Jimmy Carter and forced the world to acknowledge the growing revolutionary force of Islam.
- StarsLeon NeyfakhJohn PoindexterLeon PanettaLeon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of the country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.
- DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarThe police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
- DirectorSamirStarsShimon BallasMoshe HouriSami MichaelA filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and " the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqi-Jewish communists.
- DirectorSamirStarsHaitham Abdel-RazzaqZahraa GhandourWaseem Abbas"Abu Nawas" is a trendy café and popular hangout for artists, communists and gay Iraqi exiles in London, it's close to the Salafist Mosque. When Nasseer, a fanatic religious youth and nephew of poet Taufiq, attacks his uncle's friends he sets into action a course of events that will turn everyone's life upside down.
- DirectorNahid PerssonStarsFarah PahlaviNahid PerssonZinat S. LloydFilmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsNiki KarimiMohammad NikbinAtila PesianiAn official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
- DirectorNader T. HomayounStarsRakhshan BanietemadBahram BeyzaieFarokh GhafariToday Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. IRAN: A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.
- DirectorRoozbeh DadvandStarsDavid DiaanSam R. RossBobby NaderiIn 1959, under coercion of the CIA, an American physician questions his objectives of having to assassinate a deposed famed Iranian political figure living under house arrest.
- StarsWilliam Mapother
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsAlice RahimiDiana Al HussenSoraya HelliA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
- DirectorEbrahim IrajzadStarsMohsen TanabandehSareh BayatMahoor AlvandThe story of a man who wanted to destroy the roots of evil.
- DirectorMaziar BahariStarsHaleh AnvariSaeed HanaeiRoya KarimiThe real story of Saeed Hanaei, an Iranian religious serial killer who live in Mashhad.
- DirectorNavid KhonsariStarsNavid NegahbanBobby NaderiFarshad FarahatReza Shirazi, an aspiring photojournalist, who returns to Iran amidst the Iranian Revolution. As he becomes more involved in the events of the Revolution, Reza is forced to make decisions in order to survive.
- StarsChristian HansenAnn KlenkZachary TreitzFollows journalist Danny Casolaro's mysterious death while probing an alleged conspiracy called "The Octopus" linking spy software theft, unsolved murders and major 20th-century scandals.
- DirectorSam MillerStarsAnthony BoyleToby JonesLeah McNamaraFollows Brian Wood who is humbled when he is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner.
- DirectorMehran TamadonStarsZar Amir EbrahimiMehran TamadonAs an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.
- DirectorZar Amir EbrahimiGuy NattivStarsArienne MandiZar Amir EbrahimiJaime Ray NewmanIranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran's first gold medal. Midway through the competition, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose. With her own and her family's freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: feign injury and comply with the Iranian regime as Maryam implores her to do, or defy them both and fight on, for the gold.