Summary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRASummary: The program traces how decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The program provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TORAhmed, Badeeah Hassan
Summary: "Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 AHMAbdul-Ahad, Ghaith
Summary: "An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ABDSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILCoker, Margaret
Summary: "From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COKCooper, Candy J.
Summary: "Explains to readers how life is like in Iraq during war time"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.7044 COOFair, Eric
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem FairMurad, Nadia
Summary: "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MURAD, NADIA MURPacker, George
Summary: This book recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's reporting on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 PACPacker, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 956.7044 PACWillink, Jocko
Summary: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Willink, the task unit commander, planned and executed the strategy for Task Unit Bruiser, which had huge impact in the 'Battle of Ramadi'. Babin, as commander of Charlie Platoon (one of two SEAL platoons in Task Unit Bruiser) led countless combat...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.3 WILMorel, Olivier
Summary: A gripping graphic novel illustrates the challenges of Iraq War veterans as well as their inspiring triumphs. After the shock of 9/11, for hundreds of thousands of young Americans there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu Ghraib--the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. From the torment of these vets to their reflections, this book demonstrates the seemingly impossible return of those who aspire to get...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 MORSummary: "In his epic and engaging documentary of life in Baghdad before and after the 2003 US invasion, Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel acquaints us with a moving portrait of his own family and friends as they struggle in the advent and the uncertain aftermath of war. Displaying courage, grace and even humor after decades of deprivation through conflict, international sanctions, and totalitarian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOMSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKBogdanos, Matthew.
Summary: Colonel Matthew Bogdanos recounts his family's experiences at Ground Zero on September 11, his missions to hunt down al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and the investigation that led him to the discovery of more than five thousand priceless objects in Iraq.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 BOGSky, Emma
Summary: "When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an unrivaled perspective of the entire conflict. As the representative of the Coalition Provisional...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 SKYVan Buren, Peter.
Summary: From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq. A shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad, and a vividly rendered tale of ineptitude and corruption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 VANColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLSummary: Collection of interviews with perpertrators, witnesses, and victims regarding the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHODarack, Ed
Summary: A riveting account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 DARSummary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018