After a long string of films about sensational (and sensationalized) personalities, Brit docu provocateur Nick Broomfield’s recent stride into narrative filmmaking continues with “Battle for Haditha.” ...

Of course, behind this is the issue of Broomfield’s presentation. In his documentary work, like “Kurt & Courtney” and “Biggie and Tupac,” he aggressively implicates himself in the narratives, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Marines gather on Haditha Dam, on February 19, 2005. JAIME RAZURI/AFP via Getty Images During the invasion of Iraq in March ...

Nick Broomfield, known for his unseemly documentary portraits of Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love, brings a surprising dose of compassion to his third dramatic feature, an engaging ...

Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s some background information about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Haditha is a city on the Euphrates ...

Using real soldiers and Iraqis to recreate the event, the movie creates a raw, brutal portrait of wartime insanity. While “Haditha” escapes the pratfalls of rhetoric by taking a fly-on-the-wall ...

At last year’s Virginia Film Festival, I met the director Nick Broomfield, there to show his freshly minted atrocity- of-war drama Battle for Haditha, and we talked a bit about the controversy over ...

Haditha is a city on the Euphrates River northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Eight US Marines faced charges in the deaths, but only one was convicted of a crime, that of negligent dereliction of duty.

“Battle for Haditha” is yet another Iraq War picture based on a real incident that looks at atrocities committed by terrorists/insurgents and American troops. But what sets it apart from Brian DePalma ...