The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair

2007, Movie, PG-13, 72 mins

The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair: Review

PRISONER OR: HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR, THE

The sensational title and jaunty presentation aside, this troubling documentary from GUNNER PALACE (2005) filmmakers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein offers an important perspective on the uses and abuses of arrest and interrogation by U.S. forces in Iraq, especially the way current detention policy may actually hurt efforts to return Iraq to some semblance of stability. The titular prisoner is Iraqi journalist Yunis Khatayer Abbas, who dreamt of becoming a well-known c... read more leave a comment