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	The Trials of Henry Kissinger
	Dir. Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki UK 2002 Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? Using the book by Christopher Hitchens as a jumping off point, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney construct a convincing case. Charges that Kissinger created the coup that toppled Chilean president Allende, undermined peace talks and prolonged the Vietnam War by seven years, engineered the secret bombing of Cambodia, and approved Indonesian president Suharto's use of US arms to massacre 100,000 East Timorese, have resulted in summonses by five nations seeking to depose him. The Trials of Henry Kissinger is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. Using archival footage and interviews with Kissinger supporters and detractors, it portrays a complicated man whose political celebrity and power put him in an untouchable class. More important now than ever, the film questions the basic tenets of international law and puts forward that these laws are applicable to everyone except the US. (80m)

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