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Narrated by Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl, Doctors of the Dark Side 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. Based on four years of research by Producer/Director Martha Davis, written by Oscar winning Mark Jonathan Harris, and filmed entirely in HD by Emmy winning DP Lisa Rinzler, the riveting 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 demonstrations of the doctors' role in the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) as spelled out in declassified government documents.
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A courageous, empassioned and unsparing indictment.
A courageous, empassioned and unsparing indictment addressing the larger question of the employment of extreme physical coercion in the nation's war on terror and the more focused issue of the degree to which professional ethics should be (and/or have been) compromised or abandoned in the pursuit of our national defense. The means depicted - however they may be characterized - are horrific. Are they justified by the ends they are alleged to serve? And do they, in fact, serve those ends, effectively or at all? These troubling questions, too easily swept aside by the incessant flood of daily news and world events, are deserving of a full airing and careful consideration.
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- $12.99
- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 2013
- © 2012 Doctors of the Dark Side Productions, Inc.