When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year 'forever war' in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with over $7 billion of weaponry. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at spent a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
POST FILM DISCUSSION
Chair: Stephen Sackur has been presenter of the BBC's interview show HARDtalk for eighteen years, having been a foreign correspondent based in Cairo, Jerusalem, Washington and Brussels.
Director Ibrahim Nash'at is a multi-award winning filmmaker based in Berlin.
Major General (Retired) Rob Thomson, CBE, DSO was a serving officer in the British Army for 35 years. In 2014 he was Deputy Commander of a US Marine Corps HQ as security responsibilities for Helmand Province were handed over to the Afghans.