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A filmmaker stakes his own safety on gaining access to a US military site in Afghanistan that left billions in military hardware in the hands of the Taliban.

Not even Tinseltown could make this up.

It soon becomes clear that $7 billion's worth of poorly sabotaged armaments were left there, allowing the Taliban to transform itself into a significant fighting force.

Over the course of the year, Nash’at followed ambitious Talib lieutenant Mukhtar and Malawi Mansour, the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled air force. The two grudgingly accepted the filmmaker’s presence and as time passed his camera revealed a dearth of humanity in the Taliban’s worldview.

Hollywoodgate is a chilling portrait of the Taliban's return to power and a startling insight into this regime's worldview.