By Terence Johnson
Managing Editor
Given that President Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night which highlights places where America is doing well and where it could use some improvement, it seemed fitting that we’d look at the movies that attempt to do the same. There’s a rich history of documentaries taking on the issues of the times and often find themselves nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar. This year’s version of that film is Dirty Wars.
The film, based off the book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, the movie investigates the United States military and government cover-up of the deaths of five civilians killed by Us soldiers from the Joint Special Operations Command and the U.S. assassination of an American citizen named Anwar al-Awlaki. Mixing in testimonies from a variety of parties, this movie managed to nab a surprise...
Managing Editor
Given that President Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night which highlights places where America is doing well and where it could use some improvement, it seemed fitting that we’d look at the movies that attempt to do the same. There’s a rich history of documentaries taking on the issues of the times and often find themselves nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar. This year’s version of that film is Dirty Wars.
The film, based off the book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, the movie investigates the United States military and government cover-up of the deaths of five civilians killed by Us soldiers from the Joint Special Operations Command and the U.S. assassination of an American citizen named Anwar al-Awlaki. Mixing in testimonies from a variety of parties, this movie managed to nab a surprise...
- 1/29/2014
- by Terence Johnson
- Scott Feinberg
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