Only the Dead

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Only the Dead
Directed by Michael Ware
Bill Guttentag
Written byMichael Ware
Bill Guttentag
Justine A. Rosenthal
Produced byMichael Ware
Patrick McDonald
StarringMichael Ware
Edited byJane Moran
Music byMichael Yezerski
Running time
77 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Only the Dead is a 2015 Australian documentary film on war correspondent Michael Ware. It explores his time in Baghdad, Iraq in the aftermath of the American military takeover. [1] It was built around footage he took at the time on a second hand camera. [2]

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Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 8 reviews. [3]

Wendy Ide of the Guardian gave it 4 stars and wrote "The story of how rookie war correspondent Ware found himself chosen by terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to convey his message to the west is fascinating." [4] The Sydney Morning Herald's Philippa Hawker gave it 3 1/2 stars saying "The film is a mixture of his own material, voice-over reflections and some newsreel footage of the time. Sometimes, his narration feels a little self-consciously rhetorical or vague; at other times, it's frank and raw." [5]

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References

  1. Zabriskie, Phil (28 March 2016), "Only the Dead Documents an Iraq War Correspondent's Journey to the Abyss—and Back", Time
  2. Quinn, Karl (26 October 2015), "Michael Ware, war correspondent, relives his Iraq War hell in Only the Dead", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. "Only the Dead". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  4. Ide, Wendy (18 February 2016), "Only the Dead review – a journey into the heart of darkness of the Iraq war", The Guardian
  5. Hawker, Philippa (29 October 2015), "Only the Dead review: An Australian journalist's battle with war, words and silence", The Age
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