Movie Details
Original Language:English
Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq
DirectorDavid Johnson
58 minDocumentary
Plot
Its the largest and most ambitious habitat recreation project ever known to bring back to life one of the worlds greatest marshlands And its happening in Iraq Considered to be the original Garden of Eden the marshes were once Iraqs wildlife jewel where man and nature thrived for 5000 years But in the 1990s Saddam Hussein drained these gigantic wetlands and turned them into a desert destroying a home to thousands of people and millions of birds Donning his body armour filmmaker David Johnson travels to the Mesopotamian marshes to follow the work of Azzam Alwash the visionary Iraqi engineer at the centre of this extraordinary scheme to reflood hundreds of miles of desert and bring back life to the sands This is a view of Iraq the world never sees a world of huge reed beds and vast flocks of birds that fill the sky
