The Fight For Falluja (original) (raw)

The Times has produced a virtual-reality film about the war in Iraq. To view it, download the NYT VR app on your mobile device. Download the NYT VR app for Android or iPhone.

If The New York Times Magazine’s Fractured Lands epic narrative helps you understand how the Arab world came apart, the accompanying virtual-reality film transports you directly into the violent center of the unraveling. “The Fight for Falluja” allows viewers to experience, firsthand, the battles that Iraqi forces endured to retake Falluja form ISIS this June. Ben C. Solomon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and video journalist for The New York Times, chronicles the push to retake the city and the aftermath, not just of that battle but of the larger war that has devastated the entire region.

This 11-minute experience is available on the NYT VR app.

Directed, edited and written by Ben C. Solomon

Produced by Jenna Pirog

Field Producers Mouataz Majed Mohamed, Falih Hassan

Executive Producers Jake Silverstein, Kathy Ryan, Nancy Gauss

Post-Production Koncept VR

Translations Moutataz Majed Mohamad, Abduljabbar Yousif, Ahmed Salah, Sarah Almukhtar

Music by Matt Joynt and Nathan Sandberg

Editor’s Note: Images of the V.R. apparatus and its shadow have been removed in some places. This editing, which is common in V.R. production, helps preserve the scene as a viewer on location would normally see it.

This film was supported in part by the Pulitzer Center.