Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm

Journalists Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy's earnest, muckraking documentary is really two films in one: It's both an eye-opening history of the rather cozy relationship the United States has long shared with its designated boogey man, Sadaam Hussein, and a wholehearted plea to end economic sanctions against Iraq. Ungerman and Brohy begin by asking two deceptively simple questions: Why was the Gulf War fought? And why, after 10 years, is an embargo so devastating to Iraq's civilian population (and therefore illegal under the terms of the Geneva Convention) still in effect? The answers to both questions, the filmmakers maintain, are rooted in the decades following W...