Afghanistan Movies

  • 2016
    The Land of the Enlightened

    The Land of the Enlightened

    The Land of the Enlightened

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    A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the...

    The Land of the Enlightened
  • 2004
    Earth and Ashes

    Earth and Ashes

    Earth and Ashes

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    Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where...

    Earth and Ashes
  • 2017
    The Prince of Nothingwood

    The Prince of Nothingwood

    The Prince of Nothingwood

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    French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star who produced more than 110 low-budget movies in a...

    The Prince of Nothingwood
  • 2015
    Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

    Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

    Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

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    When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helmand Province, an extremely dangerous region where...

    Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
  • 1970
    Laffghanistan: Comedy Down Range

    Laffghanistan: Comedy Down Range

    Laffghanistan: Comedy Down Range

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    Stand up comedian Graham Elwood's journey physically, and emotionally, as he travels through Afghanistan's war zones to entertain the embattled U.S....

    Laffghanistan: Comedy Down Range
  • 2002
    Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan

    Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan

    Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan

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    Shot by members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, using both a regular and WITNESS hidden camera, Rise documents the...

    Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan
  • 2001
    Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin

    Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin

    Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin

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    Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.

    Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
  • 2006
    Zolykha's Secret

    Zolykha's Secret

    Zolykha's Secret

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    A rural Afghan family living at the base of a mountain, struggles to survive during the last year of the Taliban and the beginning of a new war that...

    Zolykha's Secret
  • 2011
    Outside the Wire: The Forgotten Children of Afghanistan

    Outside the Wire: The Forgotten Children of Afghanistan

    Outside the Wire: The Forgotten Children of Afghanistan

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    The mission: Capture US and NATO forces on camera giving food, water, clothing, blankets, and medical supplies to widows and orphans in refugee camps...

    Outside the Wire: The Forgotten Children of Afghanistan
  • 2017
    A Letter to the President

    A Letter to the President

    A Letter to the President

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    Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for...

    A Letter to the President
  • 1989
    Afgan: The Soviet Experience

    Afgan: The Soviet Experience

    Afgan: The Soviet Experience

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    During the 1980s, Russia fought a disastrous war in Afghanistan. Shot by a Western crew, the 40 minute film includes footage of combat missions with...

    Afgan: The Soviet Experience
  • 2023
    Ascend

    Ascend

    Ascend

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    Mina Bakhshi, Haniya Tavasoli and Rabia Hussain had a fair amount of latitude for women in Afghanistan, able to pursue their education, go to work,...

    Ascend
  • 2022
    Bibi

    Bibi

    Bibi

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    In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a...

    Bibi
  • 2004
    Joy of Madness

    Joy of Madness

    Joy of Madness

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    Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of...

    Joy of Madness
  • 2022
    100 Miles to Redemption

    100 Miles to Redemption

    100 Miles to Redemption

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    A poignant story about overcoming our demons and finding hope through darkness. Haunted by the affects of PTSD induced by fighting a war, the...

    100 Miles to Redemption
  • 2023
    Life Ahead of Her

    Life Ahead of Her

    Life Ahead of Her

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    La vie devant elle is the diary of the exile of Elaha, a 14 year old Afghan girl, who films herself with a small camera to tell her story. Through...

    Life Ahead of Her
  • 2023
    Longe de Cabul

    Longe de Cabul

    Longe de Cabul

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    Longe de Cabul
  • 2018
    Afghan Coal

    Afghan Coal

    Afghan Coal

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    The story of a country that is obliged to give up on its future... The documentary pictures the town of Tor famous for its coal mines located in the...

    Afghan Coal
  • 2026
    Les échappées de Kaboul

    Les échappées de Kaboul

    Les échappées de Kaboul

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    Les échappées de Kaboul
  • 2026
    Jaan

    Jaan

    Jaan

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    In Jaan the filmmaker uses her mother’s forbidden cassettes and dance to tell the stories and show the spirit of Afghan women across...

    Jaan