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Letters from Baghdad is a 2016 documentary film about the life and work of Gertrude Bell. It was executive produced by Tilda Swinton, who also provides voiceover work as Bell.
Jun 3, 2017 · After the misfire of biopic “Queen of the Desert,” it was clear that intrepid traveler and influential Arabist Gertrude Bell, reductively known as “the female T.E. Lawrence,” needed her ...
Jun 14, 2017 · The question of what, exactly, Bell heard when she listened to Iraqis speak is treated only obliquely in “Letters from Baghdad,” which nonetheless acknowledges Bell’s prejudice that “the ...
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Jul 14, 2017 · Now there’s “Letters from Baghdad” in which filmdom finally pays heed to the fascinating, adventurous, intriguing character of Bell, the very antithesis of demure womanhood in Victorian...
About the Show. "Letters from Baghdad" is the story of a true original, Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia.”. More influential and famous in her day than her...
Jun 8, 2017 · “Letters from Baghdad” reaffirms Bell’s legacy as pivotal in the West’s understanding of the Middle East.
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Apr 9, 2017 · The story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. Bell shaped the destiny of Iraq after World War I in Letters from Baghdad in US theaters June 2, 2017.
