Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill is an American liberal investigative journalist, and Dirty Wars is his brave attempt to shed some light on the depths of the US Army's cover-ups of secret raids all over the Middle East. Scahill discovers how these raids have killed innocent men, women and children, contributing to the cycle of anger and retribution that fuels the seemingly never-ending “War on Terror”. This documentary is incredibly hard to watch; shots of murdered children and mutilated bodies are presented mercilessly, the landscapes are harsh and striking, the colours are muted, and the score is ever-present and heart-breaking, making this film both horrific and deeply sad. Scahill is the kind of sober narrator that a story as serious as this needs, and you can see the psychological toll it takes on him, his list of innocent dead growing overwhelmingly longer as he digs deeper and deeper. A sadly necessary and incredibly vital film.