Summaries

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.

Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • 2000s
  • u.s. military
  • war on terrorism
  • american imperialism
  • reference to barack obama
Genres
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • History
  • War
  • Documentary
Release date Oct 17, 2013
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin United States
Language English Arabic Somali Pashtu Dari
Filming locations Yemen
Production companies Big Noise Films Civic Bakery

Box office

Gross US & Canada $384473
Opening weekend US & Canada $63504
Gross worldwide $416853

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 27m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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