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THE GROUND TRUTH / WHY WE FIGHT / THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES / THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO / HOME FRONT / THE PRISONER: OR, HOW I PLANNED TO KILL TONY BLAIR / IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
If Hollywood was reluctant to address 9/11 and its military aftermath, documentary filmmakers weren't. They made tours of Iraq, interviewed soldiers before and after tours of duty there, grilled U.S. policy wonks and grudge-holders, spun a half-century of neoconservatism and Islamic jihadism into a conspiratorial web. If I lead my long, distinguished, contentious list with The Ground Truth, it's because that film's marshalling of painful evidence — grunts' testimony to the harm they did in Iraq and the hurt they still feel — whacked me with the unadorned poignancy of its clear-thinking, hard-feeling soldiers. By now video stores should have a shelf devoted to the Iraq docs. Take some home; learn and weep.
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