Summary: The program traces how decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The program provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TORSummary: Collection of interviews with perpertrators, witnesses, and victims regarding the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOKarpinski, Janis L.
Summary: The inside story of the first female general ever to command troops in a combat zone, and of how the scandal of Abu Ghraib destroyed her career. It traces the rise of a groundbreaking woman from the Republican suburbs of New Jersey to a commanding position in a man's army. She earned her insignia as a master parachutist, received the Bronze Star in the first Gulf War, and as the leader chosen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 KARGourevitch, Philip
Summary: Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GOUSummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCSummary: It started as photographs taken by soldiers of the abuse and torture prisoners were suffering in Abu Ghraib prison, and turned into a media frenzy full of scandal and cover-ups. One of the most notorious moments in recent U.S. military history is examined, through interviews with participants and dramatic reenactments of events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STADanner, Mark
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 DANSummary: Investigates the torture and killing of an innocent Afghani taxi driver in a gripping probe into reckless abuses of government power. This stunningly crafted narrative demonstrates how one man's life and death symbolizes the erosion of our civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TAXSummary: This edition of Frontline takes viewers inside the iconic Abu Ghraib prison and investigates the path that led to torture techniques being used against Iraqi detainees there as well as prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Through interviews with policy makers, government interrogators, and interrogation subjects, this video examines a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRISummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004