Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield
Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the
international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America’s covert
wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond. With a strong
cinematic style, the film unfolds through Scahill’s investigation and
personal journey as he chases down the most important human rights story
of our time.
Along the way we meet two parallel casts of characters.
The CIA agents, shooters, military generals, and Special Forces
operators who populate the dark side of American wars go on camera and
on the record—many for the first time.
The human victims of this
unaccountable violence are also heard.
Seeing and hearing directly from
survivors of night raids and drone strikes and victims of torture in
“black” detention sites shows the human lives caught in these wars.
Tracing the rise of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the most
secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, Dirty Wars reveals
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:
anyone, without due process. No target is off limits for the “kill
list,” including U.S. citizens. Dirty Wars takes viewers to remote
corners of the globe to see first-hand wars fought in their name and
offers a behind-the-scenes look at a high-stakes investigation. We are
left with questions about freedom and war, justice and democracy.
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