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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
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CIA torture, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and other examples of U.S. military abuse, have a history. A key part of it is revealed in Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins. Through his extraordinary life and daring actions we learn about Fr. Roy Bourgeois and his struggle to find and reveal the truth about the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), and growing efforts by grassroots activists and Congress to shut it down. PBS "Global Voices" series began re-runs of this documentary in 2009. In the documentary Fr. Roy -- a Vietnam War hero -- meets three men, each from a different Latin American country, who link SOA to secret torture training. Two were taught torture techniques at SOA. The third, a victim of that training, found an SOA teaching manual on torture.The producer was warned that he will be killed if he reveals the name of one of the trainees or where he was interviewed. In 1996 the White House Intelligence Oversight Board confirmed the explosive charges revealed in this documentary and the Secretary of Defense at the time declared torture training would never happen again. Guantanamo and Iraq reflect the different and troubling policies of the Bush era. Under its new name, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, SOA continues. So does the growing campaign by tens of thousands of college students and others to shut SOA |
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Title from title frames |
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Cinematographers, Rick Miranda, Carlos Aparicio ; editor, Ana Crenovich ; music, Joel Bluestein |
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Narrated by Susan Sarandon |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997 |
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In English with optional closed captioning |
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Bourgeois, Roy, 1938-
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Bourgeois, Roy, 1938- fast (OCoLC)fst00479878 |
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U.S. Army School of the Americas.
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U.S. Army School of the Americas. fast (OCoLC)fst00652504 |
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Military assistance, American -- Latin America
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Persecution -- Latin America
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Torture -- Latin America
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Military education -- Latin America
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Torture.
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Persecution.
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Military relations.
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Military education.
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Military assistance, American.
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Armed Forces.
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Latin America -- Armed Forces
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Latin America -- Military relations -- United States
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United States -- Military relations -- Latin America
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United States.
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Latin America.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Streaming video
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Richter, Robert, 1929- film producer, film director, screen writer.
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Bourgeois, Roy, 1938-
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Miranda, Rick cinematographer
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Aparicio, Carlos, cinematographer.
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Crenovich, Ana, film editor
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Bluestein, Joel, composer (expression)
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Sarandon, Susan, 1946- narrator.
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Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
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Richter Productions, production company.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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