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Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, travels to Baghdad during the invasion. As he tries to find out about a brutal Al Qaeda leader, he receives a tape from Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

Genre:

Biography, Documentary, History

Actors:

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, Michael Ware, Michael Ware

Director:

Bill Guttentag, Michael Ware

Country:

International

Release:

2015

IMDb:

7.6

Quality:

Duration:

77 min

Guardian

There are scenes here that you can't unsee, much as you might want to.

February 18, 2016

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Matt's Movie Reviews

Much is learned from Ware's words of haunted experience, mostly that while war is indeed destructive, it can also plant seeds for even more rotten fruit to grow.

October 25, 2015

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4:3

Only The Dead lacks a consistent self-reflexivity, coming across as a hybrid of simplistic narrative account of the war and personal diary.

March 02, 2016

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The Age (Australia)

There are occasions when more information or sustained introspection feels necessary, but there also times when images speak for themselves.

October 30, 2015

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Film Experience

Given this is assembled mostly from his own war correspondents videos, Ware is at the centre of most of the footage and your response to the film will largely depend on your response to him and his true blue blokey personality.

January 20, 2016

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3AW

Absolutely outstanding, piercing documentary about the war in Iraq pieced together by Australian war correspondent Michael Ware from the seven years' worth of camcorder footage he took... Easily one of the best accounts of the war so far.

November 06, 2015

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FILMINK (Australia)

This is to the Iraq war what Night and Fog was to the Second World War, and it must be seen in spite of itself.

October 14, 2015

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Total Film

This visceral, harrowing distillation of Wares seven years on the front line may not break any new ground. But it certainly brings that chaos to life ...

January 02, 2017

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