Title:OPERATION MACE, BASRA, 28 JULY 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 806
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Mace, a search and arrest operation on suspect houses in Basra City. Shot with an image intensifier.
Description: Very dark shots of soldiers moving, followed by top cover shots on a convoy (Land Rovers and armoured vehicles on the road at night). At target location, soldiers on foot set up ladders on the garden wall before opening the gate with a sledgehammer and moving in quickly, ordering the inhabitants to "get back". Camera follows the soldiers as they make their way through the premises, opening doors as they go. Men are apprehended on the roof and kept under guard. One stares defiantly at the camera. Locals watch in the street below. Further rooftop shots. Normal camera: search teams in the house look through documents and check cupboards and bags. Women and children are guarded by a woman soldier.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 806
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-07-28
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Hennessey, Jim (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 14 mins
