Oscar Winning Doc on US Detainment and Torture

Tue. May 27, 2008 at 7:00am - Sun. Jun 1, 2008 at 7:00am

Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature

“Highly recommended. A devastating documentary laying out in precise detail the Bush administration’s use of illegal detainment, torture, and death in prison camps that exist outside the U.S. Constitution.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Powerful. One of the really pivotal indispensable documentaries of this decade. It will stand as an important historical record.”
-A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“The film quickly becomes one of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s terrifying in a way that sneaks up on you.”
-Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

The latest prize-winning documentary from Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney’s film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.

Screens Thursday - Sunday at 7:00

$7, $5 for members and students

filed under: movies, political.