Archive for the ‘Military and War’ Category

Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave

Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world’s first United Nations Secure Region, was the web site from the worst situation of genocide in Europe because World War II.

In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover with the small, intimate spa town and its surrounding region.

Over a period of five days, the Bosnian Serb soldiers separated Muslim families and systematically murdered about 7,000 men and boys in fields, colleges, and warehouses.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

Genocide: Worse Than War

Worse Than War documents Goldhagen’s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis.

With his first book, the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Vintage, 1997) Daniel Jonah Goldhagen – then a professor of political science at Harvard University – forced the world to re-think some of its most deeply-held beliefs about the Holocaust.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners inspired an unprecedented worldwide discussion and debate about the role ordinary Germans played in the annihilation of Europe’s Jews.

Posted by Sara on January 16th, 2011 No Comments

Exit Afghanistan

AVPRO, Tegenlicht documentary by Mariusz Pilis and Olaf Oudheusden wherein warlords and diplomats question what the West actually desires in Afghanistan. How justified and necessary is the current foreign military presence in Afghanistan?

The Western allied forces happen to be preventing in Afghanistan for far more than eight years, and although they have established a authorized federal government in Kabul, protection, peace and development for your Afghan persons are still far out of attain.

Posted by Sara on December 8th, 2010 No Comments

Iraq’s Secret War Files (WikiLeaks Special)

Within the greatest official files leak in historical past nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the huge scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Channel 4 News has accessed the data within the categorized documents by way of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and WikiLeaks.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War

If anyone doubts that it is time for a clear and critical look at Western intervention in the Balkans, consider this: The forces that the US supported in Bosnia and Kosovo were and are closely allied with Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network.

Bin Laden, himself, was a regular visitor in the office of Bosnia’s President Alija Izetbegovic in early 1993, when the US government was touting his commitment to moderation and multi-ethnic cooperation.

Posted by Sara on November 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Ghosts of Rwanda

When the United Nations sent peacekeepers to this modest, Central African nation — with all the complete support from the U.S. government — most in the policy-makers included believed it could well be a straightforward mission that would support restore the U.N.’s battered reputation after failures in Bosnia and Somalia. Few could picture that, a decade later, Rwanda would be the crisis that nonetheless haunts their souls.

Posted by Sara on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

The True Story of Black Hawk Down

On October 3rd, 1993, 120 Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers were dropped into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was a fast daylight raid to kidnap lead terrorist Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who had been killing U.N. workers delivering food to starving Somalis. Aidid’s goal was to control the country by controlling all the food.

Posted by Sarah on January 23rd, 2010 No Comments

Body of War

Body of War is an intimate and transformational feature documentary about the true face of war today. Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine – wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week.

Posted by Sarah on January 23rd, 2010 No Comments

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

This fascinating but academically presented documentary uses recently declassified military documents and footage never seen by the public to offer a more detailed chronicle of the history of the atomic bomb.

The film was made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the technology and the Cold War that followed are all graphically depicted.

One particularly unnerving scene shows the Russians defying the ban on nuclear testing and unleashing the largest atomic blast in history.

Posted by Sarah on January 23rd, 2010 No Comments

My War, My Story

Iraq war vets from across the country talk about why many of them oppose the war. Most of these vets remain loyal to their branch of the service, but believe that U.S. involvement in Iraq is wrong. This documentary is not a statement from the political left– many of these vets who now abhor the war come from conservative backgrounds.

Posted by Sarah on January 23rd, 2010 No Comments