你会离开亲友自愿到战地服务吗？一天六百元美金的酬劳，值得用生命来冒险吗？伊拉克现在雇用的两万五千位国际保安承包商，显然认为是值得的。这些刺青纹身、死板僵硬的老百姓，为了保护伊拉克重建工程及贵宾，必须冒着各种隐藏的危险来执行任务，但叛军可分不清谁是平民承包商，谁是联军。本节目将检视这些随时可能送命的保安承包商，面临多麽晦暗的人生。

一架载有800名乘客的客机被迫在农田、郊区和摩天大楼拥挤的城市上空快速低空飞行，否则船上数吨的炸药将被引爆。当美国空军战斗机的精英部队被派去提供护航时，他们发现自己面临着一个无法识别的战机中队，这架飞机引发了一场致命的空战，有可能摧毁上下下的所有生命。

In this series, author and journalist Simon Reeve travels to Central Asia to "meet the Stans" - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. His journey provides viewers with a unique insight into these countries' culture and politics. As well as discovering a region teeming with Islamic militants, ruthless tyrants and radioactive wastelands, Reeve also finds a more absurd side to these obscure countries, including an American military base that sells Soviet knick-knacks, a desert full of shipwrecks and a first-rate Beatles tribute band. 　　Part Two: Kyrgyzstan - It is the only country in the world with both an American and a Russian military base and Simon, not wanting to play favorites, visits both of them. Simon also meets a member of a banned radical Islamic group before putting on a (not very) protective suit to visit one of the world's most highly radioactive sites.

两伊战争期间，一位伊朗的老音乐家突然收到了来自远方伊拉克老情人的紧急求助信。于是他带领着两个儿子出发了。当他找到了老情人的时候，她已经被萨达姆的化学武器损伤了声带和面容，丈夫也死于战争。她将孩子交给了老人，却没有与老人见面。

“Flavours of Iraq” first started with the tweets Feurat Alani published about his personal history and that of his native Iraq: more than 10,000 messages about daily life, family stories and encounters, from Baghdad to Fallujah, through his French life in Nanterre. After being adapted into a book (”Le Parfum d’Irak”, Albert Londres 2019 award), then a web series on the Arte website, the film continues the story and looks at the more recent history of the country, the “Daech years” from 2011 to 2017.

The people at the top of the CIA and Saddam's foreign minister describe just how the US and Britain got it so wrong about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction before the invasion. 　　Tony Blair recounts how he flew to President Bush's private retreat at Camp David to go head to head with Vice President Dick Cheney. Colin Powell explains how he came to make his disastrous presentation to the United Nations. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw describes how he - and even President Bush himself - tried to persuade Tony Blair that to join in the invasion was political suicide.

以“三部曲”形式描绘美军占领后的伊拉克的社会实态。第一部以逊尼派居住区的少年为观察对象，第二部的视点则切换为什叶派的神职人员，第三部旨在展示库尔德牧人的生活境况。影片虽在返美后完成最终剪辑，但为保持原汁原味，完全留存了伊拉克的现场拾音。在此基础上辅以细腻的映像、巧妙的剪辑，高超的完成度叹为观止。难怪本作于年初的圣丹斯电影节纪录片竞赛部门连中三元——最佳导演、剪辑、摄影奖。

拉蒂夫·阿尼是第一个捕捉20世纪50年代至1970年代伊拉克都市生活的人，被誉为“伊拉克摄影之父”。本片围绕摄像师拉蒂夫·阿尼展开，他在当地爆发战争前拍摄了30年伊拉克的生活。86岁，他穿越满目疮痍的国家，寻找当年拍摄的人与地方。面对影像中的家园，似乎没有人能想象，这样的图景曾是真实。

Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.