The Road to Guantanamo

  • The Road to Guantanamo is a documentary directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about three detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The film condemns the interrogator's treatment of the Guantanamo prisoners as torture and violations of the prisoners' human rights.
  • Plot Synopsis

    Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul, also known as the "Tipton Three," travel to Afghanistan in October 2001, in the midst of United States attacks on the Taliban. They become entangled in the fighting and are captured by Northern Alliance soldiers.

    The rest of the film details their interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, including torture methods used by US Army and Central Intelligence Agency interrogators.

  • Reviews

    "The Road to Guantánamo" strikes me as the most important and most challenging film we're likely to see in the United States this year."Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.comhttp://mobile.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/06/22/btm/

    "Here's one case where it's no praise to say that a movie leaves you with more questions than answers."Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weeklyhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1210235,00.html

    ""The Road to Guantanamo" is a film that must be seen to understand the sad truths of our times."Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/23/DDGP9JI4OK1.DTL

    "[The directors] imbue their docudrama with undeniable power and cutting-edge topicality."Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain Newshttp://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/movies/article/0,2792,DRMN_23_4826042,00.html

    "In some ways, the movie is poorly made, and it is possibly disingenuous. What works in it, however, works terrifyingly well."David Denby, The New Yorkerhttp://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/06/26/060626crci_cinema

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