Movie #870 "The Dirty Wars" is nominated for an academy award this year for best documentary (all the nominated documentaries can be streamed this year --- hooray!), and this may be the first one I have viewed, but I think this might be the winner ---- can't imagine any of the others to be this good. This is an amazing film ---- in substance and technique. First of all, substance. It is an investigative reporter who doesn't know the end of the story until it happens ---- as the story unfolds, it has more ohmygod moments than I have ever seen in a documentary (and I'm not a fan of documentaries --- they have to be really really good for me to like them) It is basically about how the war on terror has changed for the worse in the past couple of years, as he follows a couple of night raids that have killed innocent people in countries such as Yemen and Somalia. Technically, there are some beautiful shots, high angle, low angle, sound mixing, pretty cinematography, unbelievable interviews, nice closeups of Jeremy Scahill, footage from t.v.s' etc. Nice, nice variety, and I can't say enough good about this film. If the others nominated are even marginally like this one, bring them on!
Dirty Wars2013NR87 minutes I give this 5 out of 5 stars
A 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this film follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill as he explores America's controversial methods of mitigating terror threats around the globe.
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