Sacred Defense Cinema (Sīnamā– yi difāʿ–i muqaddas), is an Iranian film genre dealing primarily with the Iran Iraq War (1980–1988). Many of the major contributors to this genre, such as Ibrāhīm Ḥātamīkīyā and Rasūl Mullāqulīpūr, who were trained in the centers of Islamic revolutionary cinema, were themselves on the front lines of the war against Iraq, bringing a sense of authenticity to their cinematic depictions of war in order to propagate the ideals of the war and the ideology of the Islamic Revolution. Martyrdom, resistance, love of homeland, and Islamic values are some of the most notable themes of this genre. Iranian war cinema continues to be an inspiration and an integral part of the state ideology in the post revolutionary Iran.