Title:OPERATION NILE, BASRA, 7 AUGUST 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 808
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Nile, a search and arrest operation on a suspect house in Basra City.
Description: Warrior armoured vehicle makes its way through the streets of Basra (shot from top cover of moving Land Rover). Scenes on camera-vehicle: top gunner, view through windscreen. Image intensifier night shots: Warrior parked at roadside. Soldiers move towards target house in line. On arrival, they set up a ladder on the outside wall and climb over. The door is opened and they move inside, where they surprise the occupants, forcing the owner of the house to sit on the floor while a search takes place. Women and children gather in a room downstairs; other men in the house are detained and held under guard. Search of the house begins; various weapons and ammunition are retrieved, along with mobile phones, photographs, documents and other items. These are all inventoried and bagged. Search continues. Arrestees are blindfolded, restrained and photographed before being taken away.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 808
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-08-07
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Hennessey, Gordon (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
Tape length: 33; Running time: 22 mins
