Ex US soldier Jeff Englehart talking about the use of white phosphorus against Iraqi civilians in Fallujah.

Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre is a documentary filmDocumentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television series. Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking ...documentary film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta which first aired on ItalyItaly, officially the Italian Republic; , is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian peninsula, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. Italy has been the home of many European ...Italy's RAIRadiotelevisione Italiana, usually known as Rai, is the Italian public service broadcaster. It operates three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels, in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings. Created as URI in 1924, it started television broadcasts on January 3, 1954. RAI was one of the 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. A very controversial plan to partly privatise RAI, by ...RAI state televisionTelevision (often abbreviated to TV, T.V.; sometimes called, telly or the tube in British English) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far ...television network on November 8th, 2005Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2005 was designated: *The Year of the Volunteer by the UK government *The World Year of Physics *The International Year of the Eucharist in Catholicism. *The ...2005. The film documents the use of weapons that the documentary asserts are chemical weaponsChemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to any explosive force. The offensive use of living organisms (such as anthrax) is considered to be biological warfare rather than chemical warfare; the use of nonliving toxic products produced by living organisms ...chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombsIncendiary bombs, also known as firebombs, were used as an effective bombing weapon in WWII . The large bomb casing was filled with small sticks of incendiaries (bomblets), and designed to open at altitude, scattering the bomblets in order to cover a wide area. An explosive charge would then ignite the incendiary material, often starting a raging fire. The fire would burn at extreme temperatures that could destroy most buildings made of wood or other combustible materials (buildings constructed of stone tend to resist incendiary destruction ...incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civiliansA civilian under international humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces. The term is also often used colloquially to refer to people who are not members of a particular profession or occupation, especially by law enforcement agencies, which often use rank structures similar to those of military units. The ICRC 1958 Commentary on IV Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War Article 4.4 states that "[e]very person in enemy hands must have some ...civilians and children by military forces of the United States of AmericaThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states, one federal district, and fourteen territories. The country is situated almost entirely in the western hemisphere: its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; the state of Alaska ...United States of America in the city of Fallujah:For the site in Israel (formerly an Arab town), see al-Faluja. :For the district in Iraq, see Fallujah (district) Fallujah (; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jewish academies for ...Fallujah in IraqIraq, officially known as the Federal Republic of Iraq (Arabic: , IPA: ), is a country in the Middle East spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the southern part of the Arabian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and ...Iraq during the Fallujah Offensive of November 2004The Battle of Fallujah (code-named 'Operation Al-Fajr - "The Dawn" in Arabic, and Operation Phantom Fury), sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Fallujah', was a joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive lead by the U.S. Marine Corps against the Iraqi insurgency stronghold in the city of Fallujah, authorized by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Interim Government. The U.S. military ...Fallujah Offensive of November 2004.

The film's primary themes are:

• Establishing a case for war crimesIn the context of war, a war crime is a punishable offense under international law, for violations of the laws of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. Every violation of the law of war in an inter-state conflict is a war crime, while violations in internal conflicts are typically limited to the local jurisdiction. ...war crimes against civilians committed by the United States.
• Documenting evidence for the use of chemical devices by the US military.
• Documenting other human rightsHuman rights refers to "the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law."The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience ...human rights abuses by American forces and their Iraqi counterparts.

This article offers a synopsis of the material presented in the documentary.