Directed by Alex Gibney2007 Documentary
Rated R
****
Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room) directed this 2007 Oscar winning documentary about atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers at "terrorist prisons" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gibney is able to present the soldiers as normal people doing terrible things when put in an extraordinary situation, but he never makes apologies for them. The film is more about the lack of communication from the top to the bottom which allowed these atrocities to occur, and the way Bush and his aides used every loophole they could to basically grant them permission to do what they wanted to get information. While it is obvious what Gibney's own opinion is, he never lets it get in the way of presenting straight facts, and he crafts one of the better documentaries about the Iraq war.
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