American Baghdad (2016)
Overview
A short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a county in San Diego, has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi refugees in America. A majority of these refugees are known as Chaldean and are of Christian decent. Many of them fled Iraq after the war broke out in 2003. This is their story.
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