Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Saddam Hussein ya hau mulki a 1979 ya tura finafinan Iraqi a wani bangare daban. Rashin wadatar albarkatun kasa daga yakin Iraki da Iran na 1980 ya kawo kusan dakatar da samar da fina-finai. 'Yan fina-finai da aka sanya a cikin samarwa sun fi mayar da hankali kan ɗaukaka tarihin tarihin Iraqi ko kuma bikin mulkin Hussein. A cikin 1981, gwamnati ta ba da umarnin mai shirya fina-finai na Masar Salah Abouseif don yin Al-Qadisiya, wani lokacin almara wanda ke ba da labarin nasarar Larabawa a kan Farisa a 636 AD. Haka kuma Mohamed Shukri Jameel mai ban sha'awa Babban Tambaya (al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra) ya jefa dan wasan Burtaniya Oliver Reed a matsayin mummunan Lt-Col Gerard Leachman wanda aka kashe shi cikin adalci a juyin juya halin Iraqi na 1920. A cikin 1980 Hussein ya gabatar da nasa labarin almara tare da tarihin rayuwar sa'o'i 6 mai suna The Long Days (al-Ayyam al-tawila), labarin da Hussein ya shiga cikin yunƙurin kisan gillar da aka yi wa Firayim Minista Abd al-Karim Qasim a shekarar 1958, da kuma tserensa na baya zuwa Tikrit. An shirya fim din kuma wani bangare ya jagoranci shi Terence Young, darektan Burtaniya wanda ya yi sunansa ta hanyar yin fim din James Bond na farko Dr. No da Thunderball (fim). Saddam Kamel ne ya taka rawar Hussein, dan uwansa kuma surukin Hussein, wanda daga karshe ya yi karo da mai mulkin kama karya kuma aka kashe shi a shekarar 1996. Bayan da Iraki ta mamaye
Kuwait, takunkumi kan Iraqi ya sanya yin fim ba zai yiwu ba a kasar, kodayake sabon ƙarni na masu yin fim yana rayuwa a Baghdad.