with director Nick Broomfield

Nick Broomfield’s latest film is a highly realistic, fictional rendering of an incident that took place in the village of Haditha, Iraq, where much of the insurgency has taken place. In November 2005, a roadside explosive killed one US Marine and wounded two others. Enraged fellow Marines exacted revenge by killing twenty-four Iraqis: men, women and children. In Battle for Haditha, Broomfield sets out to recreate the incident, imagining the circumstances that provoked the violence and led to the massacre. The dialogue is largely improvised by a cast of non-professionals, many of whom had seen extensive combat in Iraq.