Posts Tagged ‘taliban’

Lions for Lambs (2007)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Cruise, Tom | Peña, Michael | Garfield, Andrew | Berg, Peter | Dunn, Kevin | Luke, Derek | Bates, Larry | May, Christopher | Pease, David | Janson, Heidi | Carley, Christopher | Back, George | Wu, Kristy
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates.

Road to Guantanamo, The (2006)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Documentary | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ahmed, Riz | Harun, Farhad | Siddiqui, Waqar | Usman, Afran | Iqbal, Shahid | Khan, Sher | Salkey, Jason | Gaffney, Jacob | Holden, Mark | Henry, Duane | Meredith, William | Bina, Payman | James, Adam | Hughes, Ian | Buller, James
Directors: Whitecross, Mat
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.