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My Country, My Country (2006)

Name: My Country, My Country
Director: Laura Poitras
Genre: documentary film
Rating: 7

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras. The film is the first of a trilogy, with the second being The Oath (2010), tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events. The third, Citizenfour (2014), focuses on the NSA's domestic surveillance programs.

Directed by Laura Poitras · Shot by Laura Poitras · Music by Kadim Al Sahir

Elsewhere

More by Laura Poitras

The Oath — 2010
Citizenfour — 2014
Risk — 2016
Hale County This Morning, This Evening — 2018
The Year of the Everlasting Storm — 2021
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — 2022
Cover-Up — 2025

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