Iraq Doctor Film Up for an Emmy

A Guardian documentary that offers unprecedented insight into conditions inside an Iraqi hospital is competing for an Emmy award tonight in New York.

Baghdad: A Doctor's Story, made by Guardian Films, the film unit of Guardian News & Media, depicts life in al-Yarmouk hospital, one of the biggest in Baghdad.

Shot during the summer of 2006 and broadcast on BBC2's This World strand last autumn, the film was made by Omer Salih, an Iraqi doctor. Although not seen or heard on the film, Salih's job as a doctor gained him access to one of Baghdad's busiest hospitals.

"Before this film they never knew what the situation was like in Baghdad's emergency rooms. They always see the explosions and the site of an attack and that's it," Salih said last week. "When I started to speak to doctors the main reaction I got was that they were very scared.

"I really hope it will make people understand what's going on in Iraq."