 The film was aired on Channel 4 in the UK on 17 March 2008.The film is inspired by the Haditha killings incident that occurred three months after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War.On 19 November 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children were killed by a group of United States Marines following an incident where an I.E.D killed one Marine and seriously wounded two others.