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'Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone'

Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone was directed and filmed by Omer Salih Mahdi, an Iraqi physician turned filmmaker who is now studying journalism as a graduate student at Ball State University. The documentary film premiered in the United States Tuesday night, and it will air several times on HBO in February.
Film clips courtesy of HBO.

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