"Mosul" is a 2019 Arabic-language American war action film that premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and was released on Netflix on November 26, 2020. Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan, the film is based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul, where Iraqi government forces and coalition allies fought to defeat ISIS, who had controlled the city since June 2014. The movie follows the Nineveh SWAT team, a group of men native to Mosul who lost family members to ISIS, as they fight to liberate their city from ISIS militants. It has elements of a Western, portraying post-2003 Iraq as undergoing its own "reconstruction" period. The film is available for streaming on Netflix.
- Director: Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Suhail Dabbach as Major Jasem
- Adam Bessa as Kawa
- Is'haq Elias as Waleed
- Waleed Elgadi as Colonel Kaveh Esfahani
- Hayat Kamille as Hayat
- Thaer Al-Shayei as Hooka
- Ahmad Elghanem as Sinan
- Mohimen Mahbuba as Amir
"Mosul" has a rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic shows critic reviews. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a powerful and ultimately deeply moving tribute to a group of good and decent men". Roger Moore of Movie Nation noted the film's "appreciation of professionalism and patriotism".
