Synopsis

Still from Battle for Haditha

Using ex-Marines as actors and shooting in Jordan, British director Nick Broomfield tackles a controversial subject in Battle for Haditha. It recreates the events of November 19 2005, when US Marines massacred Iraqi civilians in retaliation for a deadly IED attack on their convoy.

Even-handedly cutting between the Marines, led by Corporal Ramirez, the  insurgents and Iraqi civilians, Broomfield’s handheld camera throws us head first into the action and asks us to find our own way through the fog of war.

Biography

Nick Broomfield is an English documentary filmmaker. He studied Law at Cardiff, Wales, and political science at the University of Essex; subsequently, he studied film at the National Film and Television School. Broomfield films with a minimum of crew, just himself and one or two camera operators, which gives his documentaries a distinctive style. Broomfield himself is often in shot holding the sound boom.