故事发生在2003年的英国，凯瑟琳（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley 饰）是服务于英国情报机构的政府通讯翻译官，某日，她收到了一封加密邮件，该邮件揭露了美国国安局串通英国政府，企图入侵伊拉克发动战争的阴谋。
凯瑟琳过着人人羡慕的安稳生活，领着不菲的薪水，有着无量的前途。这封邮件让她陷入了纠结之中，究竟是视若无睹还是勇敢的站出来检举揭发，最终，正义感战胜了私欲，凯瑟琳和律师本（拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）联手将这封邮件公之于众，很快就引起了群情激奋。紧接着，凯瑟琳就因为违反了《国家机密法》而被指控为叛国罪。

《杀戮一代》是以2003年伊拉克战争为题材电视连续短剧，改编自Evan Wright的同名原著。这部系列剧将于2008年7月在HBO频道播出，片长七小时，制作团队是David Simon, Ed Burns, Nina K. Noble, Andrea Calderwood, George Faber和Charles Pattinson。
同名小说《杀戮一代》（2004）是一本由滚石杂志的记者Evan Wright根据亲身经历编写的自传，讲述了他身为深入战区的记者，跟随美国海军陆战队第一远征军参与了2003年伊拉克战争的经历。他对海军陆战队生活的阐述最早是在2003年秋天，由滚石杂志分三期连载出版。系列的开篇《杀手精英》，在2004年荣获全国杂志奖的最佳报道奖。

故事围绕驻扎伊拉克的两名士兵展开，队友受伤，神秘狙击手的穷追不舍，矮墙铸成最后一道生命线。两人将何去何存？一场猫鼠游戏在所难免。

本片取材自真实事件。伊拉克步兵麦克•德尔菲尔德（乔纳森•塔克 Jonathan Tucker 饰）的父亲汉克•德尔菲尔德（汤米•李•琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰）某天突然接到儿子回国后失踪的消息。老兵汉克驱车来到军营亲自调查，从儿子手机的影像中一点点了解到了麦克在伊拉克所经历的心理创伤。没多久警方发现麦克遇害，并被肢解焚尸。汉克的妻子琼（苏珊•萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰）得知噩耗后悲恸万分，不能自己。汉克在调查案件的过程中结识了当地探员艾米莉（查理兹•塞隆 Charlize Theron 饰），二人建立了一种特殊的友谊，并一步步接近事件的真相。
本片获奥斯卡奖最佳男主角提名（汤米•李•琼斯），并获第64界威尼斯电影节天主教文化奖大奖及金狮奖提名。

19岁的士兵 Matt Ocre（Nicholas Hoult 饰）和他的排长贝克中士受命前往一个遥远的并陷入危险的村庄——巴古拜，去修补重要的管道。因这个任务他们成了敌军的目标，他们要不断警惕狙击手的袭击，自杀式炸弹袭击者。随着日子一天天过去，他的战友都牺牲了，Matt的意志力正在被慢慢消磨着，让他面对自己最黑暗的部分。
基于伊拉克战争中真人真事改编的故事。

2005年11月，伊拉克西部城市哈迪塞（Haditha）。两名伊拉克武装分子在路中央埋下自制的炸弹，炸毁途经此地的美军陆战队的汽车，一等兵米格尔•特拉泽斯在爆炸中身亡。此举激怒了陆战队的士兵，他们迅速对周边的伊拉克平民进行报复性的袭击，包括孩童在内共计24人遇害，此举震惊世界。
本片根据真实事件改编。

冲突不断的巴格达，几乎每天都有袭击发生，本书的故事就在这样的背景下展开。作者套用玛丽•雪莱《弗兰肯斯坦》中的经典角色，讲述了一个发生在伊拉克的奇特故事。
伊拉克战争后的2005年，巴格达由美军占领接管，拾荒者哈迪把爆炸遇难者的残肢收集在一起，重新缝合成一具新的身体。当一个孤独飘荡的灵魂入驻这具身体的时候，一个新的生命诞生了。哈迪称它为“无名氏”，当局视它作“头号罪犯”，其他人把它叫做“弗兰肯斯坦”。弗兰肯斯坦开始了复仇之战，报复那些杀死过它或者是曾将它炸成碎片的人，无名受害者变成了无名的加害者……

The people at the top of the CIA and Saddam's foreign minister describe just how the US and Britain got it so wrong about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction before the invasion.
Tony Blair recounts how he flew to President Bush's private retreat at Camp David to go head to head with Vice President Dick Cheney. Colin Powell explains how he came to make his disastrous presentation to the United Nations. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw describes how he - and even President Bush himself - tried to persuade Tony Blair that to join in the invasion was political suicide.

本片系统完整的讲述了伊拉克是怎样陷入战争、军阀统治、犯罪率暴增以及无政府主义状态中的。为了取得大量翔实的资料，电影曾经拍摄了200多小时的胶片，以客观的角度为人们展示了自2003年秋天以后伊拉克所发生的那些事情。至于所采访的对象包括政府高层，当然也有伊拉克市民、美国士兵以及局势分析家们。

记者Michael Ware获得史无前例的机会，能与士兵和恐怖份子近距离接触，深入描写伊拉克战争，毫无保留地呈现史诗般的故事。

美國FX有線電視片集《Over There》
第一部有關伊拉克戰爭的電視片集《Over There》將在美國FX有線電視播出，這是美國電視史上首次在還未撤軍的同時，播出相關內容的戰爭劇集。FX有線電視隸屬澳洲傳媒大亨梅鐸旗下的霍士電視集團，霍士集團向來公開支持美國總統布殊出兵伊拉克，但FX有線電視否認播出這部劇集是為攻伊宣傳及爭取支持.
From producer Steven Bochco ("NYPD Blue," "L.A. Law," "Hill Street Blues") comes the first scripted television series set in a current, ongoing war involving the United States. Gritty, intense, evocative and emotional, "Over There" takes you to the front lines of battle and explores the effects of war on a U.S. Army unit sent to Iraq on their first tour of duty, as well as the equally powerful effects felt at home by their families and loved ones.
Unlike any number of movies and TV shows starring middle-age actors portraying American fighting forces in past wars, Over There's combat soldiers look and act like the barely-out-of-high-school young adults (many of whom, in Over There, joined the military out of economic necessity) most of our real-life troops actually are.
Whatever one's feelings about the Iraq war, Bochco and co-writer and director Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X) cut through the politics to get to the individuals whose lives are on the line, who left behind families to find themselves in a most alien environment, fired upon for reasons they may not fully understand. Gerolmo does a superb job of showing us combat conditions in desert sandstorms, with rookie soldiers hanging tough under intense heat while insurgents fire from a distance at anything that moves. This is a new kind of war show, yet in many ways Over There embraces a few sentimental conventions, notably scenes in which the unit's members explain the origins of their nicknames ("Angel," "Dim," "Doublewide," "Mrs. B," and more). In the Bochco tradition, when violence comes, it comes as a grievous surprise....

"Generation Kill" is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in "The Triumph of the Will". They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted.Now "Generation Kill" tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death. It's about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell. "Generation Kill" is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like "Black Hawk Down" and a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of "Band of Brothers". It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry.