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Paying the Price: Killing the children of Iraq

Type: Feature
Released: 2000
Length: 74 min.
Directed by: Alan Lowery

Crew

Producer John Pilger

Production Company Carlton International

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Shown in festivals
  • Available on DVD/VHS

Synopsis:

In this shocking investigative documentary, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger travels to Iraq with the former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Denis Halliday, who resigned in protest over the sanctions imposed on the country in September 1998. Pilger shows the devastating effects that these sanctions, as well as the ten-year isolation imposed by the UN and enforced by the US and Britain, had on the Iraqi children during the 1990s.

Awards

Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Synopsis:
In this shocking investigative documentary, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger travels to Iraq with the former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Denis Halliday, who resigned in protest over the sanctions imposed on the country in September 1998. Pilger shows the devastating effects that these sanctions, as well as the ten-year isolation imposed by the UN and enforced by the US and Britain, had on the Iraqi children during the 1990s.
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