Battle for Haditha

Dramatising real events using a documentary style, "Battle for Haditha" is Broomfield‘s follow up to Ghosts. The film begins with some Marines from different ethnic backgrounds talking to camera about the bitter experience of the war in Iraq. All are genuine veterans no longer with the Marine Corps, playing people much like themselves and improvising a deal of the dialogue. The film focuses on an incident that occurred shortly after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War. On November 19, 2005, twenty–four Iraqis were killed in Haditha, a city in the western Iraq province of Al Anbar. At least fifteen, and allegedly all, of those killed were non–combatant civilians. All are alleged to have been killed by a group of 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb. The Iraqis appeared to have been shot by marines searching for still–dangerous insurgents concealed within the local population. Filmed in Jordan, using genuine ex–marines playing the soldiers‘ roles. This film shows the marines themselves not as hateful murderers, but bored, excitable and very scared young people driven to the edge by the intolerable daily burden of patrols in which they are sitting ducks.
Release Date: 17/03/2008
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