Name: Life After the Fall
Released: 2009-07-21

True Stories

S2009 · E13 — Life After the Fall

S2009:E13 · Life After the Fall

Episodes

18 episodes in this season

The Great Chinese Art Revolution

60 min

A President to Remember

60 min

Black Gold

60 min

Red Oil

60 min

Kenya Murder Mystery

60 min

Act of God

60 min

Close Encounters in Siberia

60 min

Tears, Tiaras and Transsexuals

60 min

Another Perfect World

60 min

E10

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

60 min

E11

Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo

60 min

E12

Taking Liberties

60 min

E13

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Life After the Fall

60 min

E14

Painting the Mind

60 min

E15

Dancing with the Devil

60 min

E16

Here's Johnny

60 min

E17

The Shock Doctrine

60 min

E18

Heavy Water

60 min

True Stories

TV Series

1h8.0

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Life After the Fall

Season 2009 · Episode 13 · Jul 21, 2009

True Stories presents Kasim Abid's intimate portrait of everyday life in war-ravaged Baghdad in the years following the Saddam regime. Having lived in exile for 25 years, Iraq-born Kasim returned to his home country in 2003 and spent more than four years filming his family as they struggled to adapt to the massive changes in their city and country under the US-led occupation after the fall of Saddam Hussein. This is a gripping portrayal of one family's fight to survive. With estimates suggesting up to 70% of the population is under 30, it is through the eyes of Kasim's five nieces that there comes a powerful sense of the mindset of the nation's youth. They share the same concerns of young women everywhere - studying and planning for their careers - building their lives. Articulate and outspoken, they enthusiastically participate in the country's first free elections: 'I'm voting for the secular movement,' says Zeina, 21. 'Religion is between me and God. No one has the right to force me to pray or cover my head. Coercion is no part of Islam,' she adds. But by the film's end, the cousins are bitterly disillusioned. Fatima, 22, notes: 'Whatever we do, it's really the Americans who decide everything. The government is just empty.'

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True Stories

TV Series

1h8.0

Documentary

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Life After the Fall

Season 2009 · Episode 13 · Jul 21, 2009

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