6.3

The Men Who Stare at Goats

2008, USA, UK

• Actors: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Robert Patrick, Waleed Zuaiter, Stephen Root, Glenn Morshower, Nick Offerman, Tim Griffin, Rebecca Mader, Jacob Browne, Todd La Tourrette, Brad Grunberg, Elsa Villafane, Fawad Siddiqui, Samuel Ray Gates, McCaleb Burnett, Sean Phillips, Matt Newton, MinhTu Van, Robert Curtis Brown, Hrach Titizian, Shafik N. Bahou, Christopher Maher, Drew Seltzer, Donn Lamkin, Sean Curley, Merik Tadros
• Genre: Comedy, War
• Director(s): Grant Heslov
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

  7.8

Superpower

2008, USA

• Actors: Christy Johnson, Max Carter, Harry S. Truman, Eric L. Haney, Jeff W. Jones, Karen Kwiatkowski, Mohammed Mossadegh, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Noam Chomsky, Morgan Reynolds, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Robert Griffiths, William Blum, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Victor Archibong, Hugo Chavez, Harvey M. Sapolsky, Jack Hoffmann, Chalmers Johnson, Sergei Khrushchev, Eric Prince, Rich May, Barbara-Anne Steegmuller, Howard Coble, Osama Bin Laden, Madeleine Albright, Kathe Latham
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Barbara-Anne Steegmuller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Superpower is a well-executed and comprehensive film that asks tough questions and goes behind the scenes of America's national security apparatus and military actions. Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is exposed through review of historical events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy.

  6.5

W.

2007, USA, Hong Kong, Germany, UK, Australia

• Actors: Josh Brolin, Colin Hanks, Toby Jones, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Scott Glenn, Richard Dreyfuss, Bruce McGill, Wes Chatham, Jesse Bradford, Sean Stone, Ben Mayer, James Cromwell, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Shea Lewis, Randal Reeder, Marley Shelton, Litt Martin, James Ron Parker, Michael Gaston, Keenan Harrison Brand, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Bryan Massey, Noah Wyle, Bill Jenkins, Brent Sexton, Jonathan Breck, Jennifer Sipes
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Director(s): Oliver Stone
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.

  7.1

The Kingdom

2006, USA, Germany

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins, Tim McGraw, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, Danny Huston, Kelly AuCoin, Anna Deavere Smith, Minka Kelly, Amy Hunter, Tj Burnett, Omar Berdouni, Raad Rawi, Mahmoud Said, Hezi Saddik, Uri Gavriel, Nick Faltas, Ahmed B. Badran, Elie Khoury, Tom Bresnahan, Yasmine Hanani, Trevor St. John, Ashley Scott, Sarah Hunley
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Peter Berg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After a terrorist attack to an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and the spy Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the South Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to revenge their friend and try to find the responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.

  7.6

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004, USA

• Actors: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush, James Baker III, Richard Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Jeffrey Toobin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Ricky Martin, Byron Dorgan, Osama Bin Laden, Craig Unger, Larry King, Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Jack Cloonan, Bill Clinton, James C. Moore, Robert Jordan, Dan Briody, John Major, Helen Thomas, Carol Ashley, Thomas Kean, Rosemary Dillard, Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth.

  8.1

Why We Fight

2004, USA, France, UK, Canada, Denmark

• Actors: Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush, George W. Bush, Robert Byrd, Frank Capra, Dick Cheney, Joseph Cirincione, Bill Clinton, Anh Duong, Gwynne Dyer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John S.D. Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower, Donna Ellington, Dennis Hastert, Saddam Hussein, Chalmers Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah Khomeini, William Kristol, Karen Kwiatkowski, Charles Lewis, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Bill O'Reilly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Richard Perle
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Eugene Jarecki
• Available languages:
  • English English.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

  6.6

Courage Under Fire

1995, USA

• Actors: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Bronson Pinchot, Seth Gilliam, Regina Taylor, Zeljko Ivanek, Scott Glenn, Tim Guinee, Tim Ransom, Sean Astin, Armand Darrius, Mark Adair-Rios, Ned Vaughn, Manny Perez, David McSwain, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ken Jenkins, Kathleen Widdoes, Christina Stojanovich, Lucky Luciano, Erica C. Newman, Jamal A. Mays, Ashlee Jordan Pryor, Michole White, Jeffrey Waid, Patrick Young, Jimmy Ray Pickens
• Genre: Action, Mystery, War
• Director(s): Edward Zwick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. LT Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm is assigned to investigate and award her the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts, from her crew and soldiers in the area, cause him to question whether she deserves it.