Wow. New Docu/Film: "The Road To Guantanamo" (VIDEO CLIP)

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http://www.alternet.org/movies/37940/

'The Road to Guantanamo,' a powerful new docudrama, reveals how easy it is for innocent civilians to be swept up -- not to mention cruelly interrogated and tortured -- in America's 'war on terror.'

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Faces From Guantanamo
By Anthony Kaufman, AlterNet
Posted on June 22, 2006, Printed on June 22, 2006

Editor's Note: Check out an exclusive clip from "The Road to Guantanamo" here.

After three inmates at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention center killed themselves two weeks ago, camp commander Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. told reporters that the suicides were "not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."

But the three men -- Mani bin Shaman bin Turki al-Habardi, 30, Yasser Talal Abdulah Yahya al-Zahrani, 22, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed, 33 -- were never charged with a crime, and no evidence has been offered to prove that they were the "smart," "creative" and "committed" warriors that U.S. officials would lead us to believe.

"The Road to Guantanamo," an engrossing new movie (opening Friday) from British filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, shows just how easy it is for innocent young people to be swept up in the United States' indiscriminate "war on terror" and suffer the kinds of indignities that could lead someone to take his own life.

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Knowing the facts of their story does little to diminish the power of seeing it unfold on screen. An effective hybrid of documentary and dramatic styles, "The Road to Guantanamo" employs interviews from the real-life Tipton Three, who narrate their own journey as it is recreated onscreen by first-time actors (a credible cast of Londoners led by Riz Agmed, Farhad Harun and Arfan Usman).

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[Hissyspit]

1. Here is the official website for the movie:

http://www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com/

[Hissyspit]

2. kick

[ChickMagic]

3. I went to their website

Is it a TV film or will it be opening in theaters? I couldn't tell
from what they said. I want to see it. "Want to" may be the wrong
way to put it. I'm compelled to see it.

[Supersedeas]

4. Ya, same question here.

[Terran1212]

6. It was shown on TV in Britain but is a theater film

You can see it at some showings in the United States; I think the timings and places are on the website.

[ChickMagic]

8. I must have missed it

I'll look again. Thanks.

[ChickMagic]

9. Okay

It will open near Dallas on July 14. I have time to steel myself.

[Terran1212]

5. I've seen two of the director's other films

They were both excellent

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Is the interview footage with the actual prisoners, or is it fictionalized

I assumed the "inside the prison" footage in the preview was fictionalized but shot to look like documentary footage.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. The real "Tipton Three" are interviewed throughout

and there is real news/documentary footage shot at the time of the war intercut with the dramatised events.

It's very good and definately worth seeing.

[Hissyspit]

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