General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:63/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #63 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009868

Original Title

[1/2]

Date of production

1991-03

Date

1991

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Arabic

Duration

1 hour 37 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Raw footage of the Arab uprising in Southern Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991. It contains shots of people fighting in Basra and Najaf; interviews with the villagers expressing their views about Saddam Hussein’s policies; people attesting to having been tortured; images of soldiers fighting in the Iran-Iraq War; images of the victims of the war and the regime; excerpts from Saddam Hussein’s speeches and meetings; fragments of news reports; and parts of documentaries about the history of Iraq and its colonial past.