Dec. 2014 saw the complete withdrawal of the international forces. Afghanistan’s nickname, ‘The Graveyard of Empires’, is as pertinent today as it has ever been. After Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the British Empire and the USSR, the USA have also discovered this to be true.
In two films, we look at the history of the two recent wars in Afghanistan, the Soviet invasion of 1979 and the war after 9/11. Both are linked.
How has this land-locked enclave, devoid of oil reserves and trapped between Russia, China and Iran, become a key square on the global chequerboard?

Click on each title hereunder to check out the two films.

The films:
AFGHANISTAN 1979, THE WAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
AFGHANISTAN, THE PRICE OF REVENGE