A journalist goes back to the war she couldn't tell truthfully. What happens when the story fights back?
Journalist Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which did not stand up.
Direction
Ron Orders lets O'Kane's guilt and determination drive every frame.
Writing
Unflinching self-interrogation about complicity in war narratives.
Director
Ron Orders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the rise of 24-hour news cycles, this doc interrogates the very medium that would soon consume itself in embedded reporting during Iraq 2003.
O'Kane's specific focus on 'the baby milk factory' story—famously misreported as a chemical weapons site—reveals how a single fabrication travels faster than its correction.
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