Rent The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
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1h 20min
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- Synopsis:
Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? Provoked by Christopher Hitchens' book of the same title, filmmakers Eugene Jarecki and Alex Gibney present both a brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama, in which Kissinger's supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft and William Safire) vie with his most vehement critics (writers Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross and Hitchens). Charges against Kissinger include his role in the coup that toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende, sabotage of US President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam peace talks, engineering the covert bombing of Cambodia, and tacitly approving Indonesian President Suharto's use of U.S. arms to massacre over 100,000 East Timorese. Ultimately, the film questions the impartiality of international law: do war criminals reside only in nations whose interests are contrary to our own? - Actors:
- Anna Chennault, Amy Goodman, Alexander Haig, Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, Barbara Howar, Henry Kissinger, Michael Korda, Lewis Lapham, Geoffrey Robertson, William Safire, René Schneider Jr., Michael Tigar
- Directors:
- Eugene Jarecki
- Producers:
- Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki
- Voiced By:
- Brian Cox
- Narrated By:
- Brian Cox
- Writers:
- Alex Gibney, Christopher Hitchens
- Studio:
- Artefact Films
- Genres:
- Documentary
