'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Sparky, the first one that comes to mind is Three Kings. I haven't seen Black Hawk Down, but maybe others can comment.
ETA: there's a movie that came out recently about the search for, I think, Radovan Karadzic or some other Serbian war criminal, except it was lightly fictionalized. About a bunch of journalists that looked and realized he was pretty easy to find, I think. Haven't seen it.
Sparky, you need all of the new BSG, it looks like. For torture and Star Trek you need ::lemme google:: the "Chain of Command" episode of TNG. Much of DS9 deals with war and war crimes too.
Moviewise, The Siege with Denzel Washington comes to mind.
Sparky, I think The Killing Fields fits in that list.
I loved that movie! That's why I called whatzerface on Angel "The Little Girl Who Lived Up The Elevator Shaft."
I love it, too! (It's actually in my NetFlix queue because I caught the last fifteen minutes on some channel one night recently.) It just left me with a kind of squick for Martin Sheen. The book is good, too. I just love the idea of Rynn being that resourceful and calm at that age, even if it does mean doing some fairly creepy things.
Hangmen Also Die deals with occupation and war crimes. But might be boring.
In the script, it has always seemed to me that she should be young to be divorced, that they were very much kids when they were married. Also, the age of her sister, and the lack of siblings in between, implies, to me, that she should probably be on the younger side of 30.
She was 32.
*I'M* 32.
Am I too old for that part????
Yes.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Arguing whether or not Kate Hepburn was too old for the lead in The Philadelphia Story.
Debet is eating the paste, while GC and I are right in saying that she was not.
Use of Force, Terrorism, Humanitarian intervention, Self-defense (i.e., use of force by states in self-defense), US Foreign Relations (Alien Tort Claims Act, Sovereign Immunity, Act of State), Human Rights (including women's rights, civil rights, torture, and some other stuff), Laws of war (protection of civilians, occupation, detention) Genocide, Crimes against humanity, War crimes, Environment (fisheries, ozone, climate)
The Battle of Algiers is great and deals with many of these issues. Plus, there's the whole issue of the Pentagon screening it a couple of years back as reference in dealing with Iraq.