Incident in New Baghdad (2011)

Name: Incident in New Baghdad
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-04-24

22m

Running Time

Plot.

U.S. Army veteran Ethan McCord recounts his life-changing experiences at the scene of one of the most notorious events of the Iraq War: the slaying of two Reuters journalists, along with a group of mostly unarmed men, on the streets of Baghdad by American attack helicopters in July 2007.

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Cast & Crew.

James Spione

Director

Ethan McCord

Self

Emile Menasche

Composer

Details.

Release Date
April 24, 2011

Status
Released

Running Time
22m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-09-28

Wiki.

Incident in New Baghdad is a 2011 short documentary film about the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, directed by James Spione.

The film features a first-person account from Ethan McCord, one of the first soldiers to arrive at the scene of the airstrike that killed 12 to "over 18" people and wounded 2 children in New Baghdad during the Iraq War.

The film premiered theatrically at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Short Documentary. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 84th Academy Awards. It was the second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated for an Academy Award.