Plot

The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq takes the viewer behind the scenes of one Iraqi family's strugle to survive amidst the carnage of the growing Shia insurgency. Nineten-year-old Ibrahim dreams of revenge when his brother is shot and killed by an American patrol. With scenes of fighting abd death on the streets of Baghdad and Najaf, this is the closest most will ever come to being there; kneeling in prayer amidst a thousand Muslim worshippers, feeling the roar of low-flying Apaches, riding atop a sixty-ton tank, driving with masked resistance fighters to attack American positions, fleeing the threat of an overwhelming response, the blood in the street, a tank on fire, or the cold, distant stare of a dead Iraqi fighter.

Reviews
"MADE WITH ACCESS THE CIA WOULD ENVY...revealing insight into the war in Iraq." -Leslie Felperin, Variety
"STUNNING FOOTAGE...a coruscating politics-free observation of the war." -Bill Gallo, LA Weekly
"FASCINATING...A BRAVE FILM." -Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Andrew Berends provides a moving look at life in the war-torn nation, highlighting the country's beauty and, less unexpectedly, the complexity of the situation on the ground." -Box Office
"Intimate & Hair-Raising." -Nathan Lee, New York Times

Related Links

• IMDb Page
• Variety
• The Onion AV Club review
• New York Times
• The Village Voice

Customer Comments

• Reviewer: Nini on 13-Feb-2008

  Perfect loved it ..... makes you wonder what americans are really doing in Iraq? Wish maybe we could have given the same comforts to the people of Iraq and not WAR.... Inshallah one day

Additional Information

• Country: United States, Iraq
• Language: Arabic, English, English Subtitles
• Format: NTSC
• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 16:9
• Color: Color
• Sound: Dolby Digital