When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
Acting
Suhail Dabbach carries the soul of this entire film.
Direction
Carnahan's debut has zero fat—every frame punishes.
Sound
Gunfire that actually hurts your chest. Wear headphones.
Director
Matthew Michael Carnahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Nineveh SWAT team was real, and most members were killed in combat; survivors consulted on the film. Carnahan wrote it after reading Luke Mogelson's New Yorker piece 'The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS.'
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