Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Kukwira kwaSaddam Hussein musimba muna 1979 kwakasundira bhaisikopo reIraq munzira yakati siyanei. Kupedzwa kwemari yenyika kubva kuhondo ya1980 yeIraq neIran kwakapotsa kwakamisa kugadzirwa kwemafirimu. Mafirimu mashomanene akaiswa mukugadzirwa zvikurukuru akanga ane donzo rokukudza nhau yeIraq yenhema kana kuti kupemberera kutonga kwaHussein. Muna 1981, hurumende yakaraira mugadziri wefirimu wekuEgypt Salah Abouseif kuti agadzire Al-Qadisiya, nhetembo yenguva inotaura nezvekukunda kwevaArab pamusoro pevaPezhiya muna 636 AD. Saizvozvowo Mohamed Shukri Jameel's melodramatic The Great Question (al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra) akakanda mutambi weBritish Oliver Reed semunhu akaipa Lt-Col Gerard Leachman uyo akaurayiwa zvakanaka mushanduko yeIraq ya1920. Muna 1980 Hussein akasimudzira ngano yake ne autobiographical 6-hour epic The Long Days (al-Ayyam al-tawila), saga rekutora chikamu kwaHussein muna 1958 mukutadza kuuraya Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, uye kupukunyuka kwake kwegamba kudzokera kuTikrit. Firimu racho rakagadziriswa uye rakanyatsotungamirirwa naTerence Young, mutungamiri weBritain uyo akaita zita rake achitungamirira mafirimu ekutanga aJames Bond Dr. No uye Thunderball (firimu). Hussein anoridzwa naSaddam Kamel, hama nomukuwasha waHussein, uyo pakupedzisira akazoita mhirizhonga nomudzvinyiriri uye akaurayiwa muna 1996. Pashure pokunge Iraq yapinda
Kuwait, zvirango zvairwisana neIraq zvakaita kuti kugadzira mafirimu munyika yacho kuve kusingabviri, kunyange zvazvo chizvarwa chitsva chevagadziri vemafirimu chiri kumuka muBaghdad.