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Great Film overall

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is so bad it may as well be fiction. The writer tries to demonize JSOC by digging in to a single raid out of the probably 60,000 raids that JSOC forces have done during the war.The writer uses tactical, short excerpts and clever editing to make his point. My favorite line in the movie was.... "I have been a war corespondent for over 10 years and I had never heard of JSOC before? Who is this mystery army?"Have you been sleeping under a rock for 35 years?? They have a website and even a wikipedia page. There have been movies highlighting their operators for years. (i.e. Lone Survivor, Navy Seals, Blackhawk Down, etc....) If you have really been a war reporter / corespondent.... how could you not know about JSOC unless you are completely inept at your job. As a former member I can tell you.... this movie is 95% fiction. And story tellers like this have the right to spin their stories and exploit isolated events because of the men and women that defend them.And the gullible people that believe these story tellers. You are the civilians that are afforded their protection."People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - George Orwel

Dirty WarsI think this documentary in particular was made for for all U.S. Citizens who are completely clueless about what information the U.S. Government has been keeping from us. I believe the purpose of this film is to bring everything that has been in the dark about the country we live in to the light. Put out the information and attacks of the J SOC innocent people were killed! Women and children were killed because they are all considered "terrorist" and U.S citizens have no real insight on these pointless hidden tragedies. Jeremy Schahill was speaking and writing nothing but the truth throughout the documentary he discussed J SOC and Drone attacks and Identified certain members or leaders of these powerful special opp groups. This documentary really shocked me and open my eyes to everything that could be going on in the world that I myself haven't been paying attention to or have been possibly misinformed about. Like for instance the killing of Osama bin laden. On a scale of one to ten I'd definitely rate this one a 10. Jeremy is terrific and an amazing writer.

it's not where i think i'll find anything about how people feel about certain situations... but the reviews i read here? wow! talk about insights into how people view the US and its workings...from around the world. i haven't lived in the US for years. as soon as i realized i'd found a place that does with the tax money what i wanted to be done with it, i'd realized it was where i wanted mine to go...what i want is an environment that is relatively safe and healthy to have families in. where people in need due to circumstances mostly beyond their control would be supported through hard times. even though i have to pay at least 8% more out of each paycheck. i'm OK with sacrificing for what i believe in...i could've been a soldier in the Vietnam war. i realized then how little that govt truly cared about me or any of its 'non connected' citizens... my knowledge of how pervasive that is has only grown throughout the following decades... if people want to have a better understanding of what i'm talking about, all they need do is read howard zinn's 'a people's history of the united states'. a bit biased, but enough facts to provide any discerning individual with the information needed to come to a clear conclusion.i don't see it as just 'the US govt' as much as i see it as alpha animal behavior. by alpha animal i mean a creature that will do whatever it takes to be and remain alpha. whatever it takes, just as long as 'they get theirs'. it seems to be built right into natural process.and each of these alpha groups, no matter where they're located seem more than willing to tell a version of the story that puts them in the best light. i'd rather point these things out than try to harp on 'this govt/group did this and this govt/group did this...'. for me, if i DO know who's responsible for some things being the way they are, there's no real need to try to convince others. i just go ahead and act on what i think is true.it would seem we all act from our convictions, whatever they may be. and we arrive at these convictions however we may. i lived and accrued information however/from where ever i could, hoping that it might be close to true... but i know how, like the game of telephone, hand me down information can be. and how, many times, it will be purposefully misrepresented by those with a certain agenda. but then there's this REALly inconvenient question i keep coming to... so what IF your govt is perpertrating atrocities against some groups? are you going to arm yourself and take them on? or is this all just an exercise to help exorcise the guilt by association? i don't suggest anything except to live life in a way that makes you a good person in your own eyes...so many of the opposing/conflicting views here seem to already be doing that. so i'll stop now... thanks, btw, for all the insights into your process/es...

If not for uncensored news outlets like DEMOCRACY NOW! or LINK TV, most of us wouldn't know a thing about books (and documentaries) like DIRTY WARS. The documentary is genuinely suspenseful and often as painful as a "double tap." (For those who don't know, a "double tap" is when a drone is sent in to kill someone targeted by the U.$. government and a SECOND drone or missile attack is launched at the exact same spot minutes later to kill anyone who has arrived to aid the initial victim.) "America knows war," a U.$.-backed Somali warlord boasts: "They are masters of War." In Virginia and North Carolina, hundreds of millions of gallons of poison (including arsenic) have been accidentally dumped into rivers; the Tar Sands pipeline has been built without "official approval"; the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which has been likened to the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement "on steroids") is being slipped in through the back door of the Blight House; RADCAST.org reminds us on a daily basis that radiation levels are dangerously high around this company- uh, country; attorney Mike Papantonio gives regular run-downs on the latest Medical malpractices going on worldwide (Tylenol causes liver damage, for instance); there are 8 Million pounds of contaminated beef being recalled (and one local grocery chain is having- get this- a "25% off meat sale"); there's formaldehyde in soft drinks (and all plastics, including packaging); there are new oil spills and fires in Louisiana (we see a string of oil tankers apparently burning in the middle of a clearly visible oil slick); pockets of frozen methane in the Arctic may begin to thaw, ere long, and bring about yet another Extinction Event; between 80,000 and 100,000 protesters turned up at a recent Moral Monday protest here and not one local news outlet mentioned it (not that I saw); millionaires and billionaires (many of whom dressed in drag) met in a closed-door meeting to belittle the poor in this Fascist Plutocracy; the top three causes of Death in this country are 1. Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Medical Malpractice (450, 000 cases a YEAR!); undercover footage showing Bubbas in Idaho torturing and- get this- sexually assaulting farm animals in slaughterhouses came to light and suddenly there's a ban on undercover exposes; and only people like Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and Thom Hartmann and a handful of others free of corporate control bother to try to get the Truth out to us. Listen closely, people. Time's a'wastin'. Or maybe I'm just being para---