Mosul is a 2019 Arabic-language American war action film written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan. The film is based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul, which saw Iraqi Government forces and coalition allies defeat ISIS who had controlled the city since June 2014. The film premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and released on Netflix on November 26, 2020.
During the Battle of Mosul, three Mosuli policemen arrest ISIS drug smugglers. However, they are soon overrun by ISIS and run out of ammo while defending themselves inside a cafe building. One of the police officers, Kawa, a 21 year old Kurd recently enlisted as a police officer, loses his uncle during the gunfight. The Nineveh Swat Team, while going on a mission of their own, find the stranded police officers and save them from the ISIS group, as well as execute the drug smugglers.
The Nineveh SWAT Team, a police division made up of men native to Mosul who lost family members to ISIS and led by Commander Major Jasem, offers Kawa to join them since he lost his uncle to ISIS and is thus eligible to become part of their team. He accepts, while his partner, the other police officer named Jameel, offers to take Kawa’s uncle’s body for burial.
