Nick Broomfield's docu-dramatisation of the massacre of twenty-four men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq, killed by US Marines in retaliation for the death of one of their number in a roadside bomb. Characteristically broad in its approach, following as it does with equal lack of judgement the soldiers, the Iraqi families and the insurgents. A traumatic, gripping and thoughtful re-enactment of events.
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CONTROL ROOM (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
An Egyptian-American reporter 'embedded' with Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet, gives a fascinating insight into their coverage of the Iraq War and the personalties who made it, as well as face to face chats with American liasion officers and other members of the press corps. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials, eventually bombed for failing to follow the American line and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as foota
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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
'From the people who brought you 'The Wire'; Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright was embedded with the US Marine Corps 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during 2003, the first year of the second Iraq War. This is his story.
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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
The tale of our semi-literate, foul mouthed grunts continues;
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GENERATION KILL SEASON 1 DISC 3 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
The last episode in the first season.
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GREEN ZONE (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Roy Miller is an American soldier assigned to find WMD in post-invasion Iraq. Increasingly aware that the sites that they're being sent to search are empty and could never have been used as storage dumps Miller begins to query the intelligence sources being used, a procedure that throws him into a power struggle between the Pentagon and the CIA over turf and policy. Miller rejects all the limits of his rank in his determination to uncover the truth in this conspiracy action movie that gives a le
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IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
When retired Military Police officer Hank receives a message telling him his army enlisted boy is missing from his New Mexico base and when his request for answers reveals nothing the old man, helped by an initially reluctant female detective, sets out on a detection path of his own. "In The Valley Of Elah" is a clever, nicely photographed film that ultimately makes its stance on the dehumanisation that results from violent conflict (Iraq). A Hollywood dramatic thriller yes, overly signposted ye
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TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Starting with the murder in an Afghan prison of an innocent taxi-driver by American soldiers, this brilliant documentary outlines the lines of command from Cheney and Rumsfeld down to those on the front line. We learn about the techniques of torture and who authorised which methods. We hear about some of the history of CIA torture methods, the irrelevance of torture to extracting information and its use as a weapon of terror and political posturing by those in power in Washington.
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