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The Rise of the Mujahideen

Name: The Rise of the Mujahideen
Uploaded: 2021-09-28T10:01:10Z
Duration: 25 min 48 s
Description: In the late 1980s, a new approach to Afghan cinema emerged as the Mujahideen grew in opposition to Soviet forces.

Afghan cinema became a dangerous affair as conflict escalated between the communist regime and the American-backed Mujahideen.

For the communists, Afghan cinema served as a propaganda tool.

For some members of the Mujahideen, cinema was seen as a necessary tool of documentation to transmit knowledge on the battlefields and to the next generation.

But as the Mujahideen took over Kabul in 1992, Afghan film faced an uncertain future.