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Shock and Awe

They risked everything to uncover the truth.

Rating 6.3 / 10Release December 9, 2017Runtime 90 min

A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

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