Torture. We have ways of making you talk
Description
Examining the use of torture over the past half-century, this program describes its horrific application in military and political settings and explores its profound human cost. Featuring interviews with confessed practitioners of the gruesome craft, the program exposes interrogation methods developed and carried out by French army officers against Algerian independence fighters, by British police against the IRA, by American troops against the Viet Cong, and other shocking occurrences in South America and South Africa. The employment of physical and psychological abuse as a weapon against guerilla and opposition groups parallels current dilemmas in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
Runtime
53 min
Subjects
- Law (149)
- Criminal procedure (32)
- Criminal investigation (187)
- Comparative government (142)
- Psychology (828)
- Ethics (196)
- Deviant behavior (131)
- Terrorists (96)
- Social control (144)
- Forensic sciences (154)
- Social psychology (195)
- Philosophy (274)
- World history (1846)
- Criminal psychology (102)
- Patients (117)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2005
Database
Films on Demand
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