Baghdad ER

2006 TV series or program

Baghdad ER

DVD cover for Baghdad ER

Directed by| Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Original language| English
Production
Producers| Jon Alpert, Joseph Feury, Roberta Morris Purdee, and Matthew O'Neill
Running time| 64 minutes
Production company| HBO Documentary Films
Original release
Network| HBO
Release| May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21)

Baghdad ER is a documentary released by HBO on May 21, 2006. It shows the Iraq War from the perspective of a military hospital in Baghdad. It has some relatively disturbing scenes in it (e.g. amputations), therefore the U.S. Army is officially warning that military personnel watching it could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[1][2]

After being given a Peabody Award, the show was featured in the April 13, 2007 broadcast of NPR's Fresh Air.

## Awards and nominations

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### Awards

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Carrie Goldman, Patrick McMahon, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill accept the Peabody Award, June 2007.
On the right: Paula Zwillinger, mother of a fallen marine

* Emmy Awards:
* Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking
* Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming – Single-Camera
* Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming
* Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming – Single or Multi-Camera[3]
* Peabody Award
* 2006[4]

### Nominations

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* American Cinema Editors Awards:
* Best Edited Documentary Film[5]
* Emmy Awards:
* Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming – Single-Camera
* Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming – Single or Multi-Camera

## References

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1. ^ Documenting Life and Death in 'Baghdad ER' : NPR
2. ^ Democracy Now! | Baghdad ER: Documentary On US Military Hospital in Iraq Gets Cold Reception From Army
3. ^ "Documentary Films". Archived from the original on 2007-03-19. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
4. ^ 66th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2007.
5. ^ [1]

## External links

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* Baghdad ER at IMDb

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Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

2000s|

* Death in Gaza (2005)
* Baghdad ER / Two Days in October (American Experience) (2006)
* A Lion in the House (Independent Lens) / When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2007)
* White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2008)
* The Alzheimer's Project: "The Memory Loss Tapes" (2009)

2010s|

* The Betrayal – Nerakhoon (POV) (2010)
* Freedom Riders (American Experience) (2011)
* Have You Heard from Johannesburg? (Independent Lens) (2012)
* Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2013)
* Life According to Sam (2014)
* Citizenfour (2015)
* Cartel Land / Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)
* LA 92 (2017)
* Strong Island (2018)
* RBG / The Sentence (2019)

2020s|

* The Cave (2020)
* 76 Days (2021)
* When Claude Got Shot (2022)
* The Territory (2023)
* Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2024)

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