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Riding the Storm: How to Tell Lies and Win Wars

Riding the Storm: How to Tell Lies and Win Wars

1996 · 50 min · Documentary

Journalist Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which did not stand up.

Directed by Ron Orders · Written by Maggie O'Kane

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