The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair

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 correspondent for the BBC or CNN but became famous for a very different reason. Late one night in September, 2003, after he and his brothers returned from a wedding party, Yunis's family hom...