IN T E R N A T I O N A L RE L A T I O N S DE P A R T M E N T

“SMALL WAR” ON THE BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ORGANISED AND INTRODUCED BY Professor TARAK BARKAWI

MICHAELMAS TERM, WEEKs 2-5, 7-11: THURSDAYS 4.00 – 7.30 P.M. IN ROOM PAR.1.02 (14 Nov in CLM 4.02)

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10 OCTOBER 17 OCTOBER The Man Who BURN! Would Be King DIR. Gillo Pontecorvo 1969 DIR. John Huston 1975 Two British former Sir William Walker is called soldiers decide to set to the island of Queimada themselves up as in the Antilles to foment a Kings in Kafiristan rebellion against Portuguese rule. STARRING Sean Connery, STARRING Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Christopher Plummer Márquez, Renato Salvatori

24 October 31 October BREAKER MORANT The Wind that Shakes the Barley DIR. BRUCE BERESFORD 1980 DIR. Ken Loach 2006 THREE AUSTRALIAN Against the backdrop of LIEUTENANTS ARE COURT the Irish War of MARTIALLED FOR Independence, two EXECUTING PRISONERS AS A brothers fight a guerrilla war WAY OF DEFLECTING against British forces. ATTENTION FROM WAR CRIMES COMMITTED STARRING BY THEIR SUPERIOR OFFICERS. Cillian Murphy, STARRING Padraic EDWARD WOODWARD, JACK Delaney, Liam THOMPSON AND JOHN WATERS Cunningham

14 NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS Platoon DIR. GILLO PONTECORVO 1966 DIR. Oliver Stone 1986 IN THE 1950S, FEAR AND A young soldier in VIOLENCE ESCALATE AS THE Vietnam faces a PEOPLE OF ALGIERS FIGHT moral crisis when FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE confronted with the FRENCH GOVERNMENT. horrors of war and the STARRING duality of man. BRAHIM HADJADJ,

JEAN MARTIN STARRING Charlie Sheen, AND Tom Bergenger AND YACEF SAADI William Dafoe

28 NOVEMBER 5 DECEMBER Missing ZERO DARK THIRTY

DIR. Costa Gravas 1982 DIR. KATHRYN BIGELOW 2012 When an idealistic A CHRONICLE OF THE DECADE- American writer LONG HUNT FOR AL-QAEDA disappears during the TERRORIST LEADER OSAMA BIN Chilean coup d'état in LADEN AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 2001 September 1973, his ATTACKS, AND HIS DEATH AT THE wife and father try to HANDS OF THE NAVY S.E.A.L. TEAM find him. 6 IN MAY 2011. STARRING Jack Lemmon, STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN, Sissy Spacek AND Melanie JOEL EDGERTON AND Mayron CHRIS PRATT