Plot
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 5.2/10 (108 voted)
Director:Rick Rowley
Storyline
Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. With a strong cinematic style, the film blurs the boundaries of documentary and fiction storytelling. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No ...
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Taglines:
A secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth.
The documentary covers the story of Jeremy Scahill's discovery of a
secret war, without bounds, which the US government has been waging in
the name of fighting terrorism.
We see Scahill travel the world interviewing families in Iraq, Jordan,
Yemin and Samalia who have had family members killed when they were
declared to be suspected terrorists.
I left the theatre feeling that it is one of the best documentaries I
have ever seen.
I was lucky enough to catch a screening of this at the Seattle
International Film Festival, where Scahill did a Q+A afterwards. He was
extremely eloquent answering every question.
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