Only the Dead

Only the Dead (2015) is an Australian documentary you can watch online on iFILM. War correspondent Michael Ware spent seven years in Iraq — from the 2003 invasion through the sectarian collapse that followed — filming what most journalists chose not to show.

Ware co-directed this account of his own time in the conflict alongside Bill Guttentag, making the film structurally unusual: the subject sits behind the camera too. He filmed militants, filmed executions, filmed himself being broken by what he witnessed. The title is a quote about who has truly seen the end of war. Stream Only the Dead online on iFILM.