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City of Ghosts

Name: City of Ghosts
Director: Matthew Heineman
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: 2017-07-14
Cast: Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Hamoud, Hassan, Hussam, Naji Jerf

WarDocumentary

With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

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Cast

Abu Bakr Al-BaghdadiHamoudHassanHussamNaji JerfMohamad

Director

Matthew Heineman

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