The film "Atropia" is a dark comedy set at a U.S. military facility in California designed to simulate battle conditions in Iraq. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Alia Shawkat.

There's been a surge in Iraq and a surge of Iraq movies here at home (see links below). It might be working in Baghdad but it's tanking at the local cineplex. We talk to the director of In the Valley ...

The failure of Iraq War movies to generate audience buzz: an interview with Kimberly Peirce, whose fiction film Stop-Loss, was inspired by her brother, back from a tour in the Army, who showed her how ...