A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
Direction
De Palma orchestrates six formats like a furious conductor.
Editing
The rape scene cut to French documentary—unforgivable and deliberate.
Director
Brian De Palma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Palma conceived this after discovering the Mahmudiyah rape-murder case was buried by US media; he specifically cited the Haditha killings as direct inspiration.
The film's title refers to government censorship of documents—ironically, Magnolia Pictures pressured De Palma to redact the real casualty photos; he refused and they barely released it.
US
