Jon Snow’s Hidden Iraq

Five years after the invasion, Channel 4 news anchor Jon Snow examines the brutal reality of life inside post-invasion Iraq, meeting a variety of its citizens from victims of bomb blasts and war widows to human rights activists and politicians.  While the coalition forces herald its burgeoning democracy, Snow ties together reports and unseen footage of recent violence and human rights abuses from beyond the Green Zone which paint a picture of a fragmented state on the brink of anarchy and collapse.

Deploying regional video journalists and specialist cameramen into areas few Western journalists could ever contemplate, Jon Snow’s Hidden Iraq ventures behind the rhetoric to uncover what life on the ground is really like for Iraqis.  The film forms part of the Happy Birthday Iraq season marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion – a series of penetrating programmes made by award-winning filmmakers examining the devastating fall-out of the war for Iraq and the Middle East, America and Britain.