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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki
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Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal? Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified U.S. government documents, and revealing interviews with key insiders from Henry Kissinger's White House years, this new film examines charges facing the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Focusing on his role in three key events - America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, and the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970 - THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER also examines the possibility that Kissinger, by sabotaging the 1969 Paris peace talks to further Nixon's candidacy and his own concomitant rise to power, bears responsibility for all the deaths in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975.

To debate the issues, the film brings together Kissinger's friends, colleagues, and detractors, including Gen. Alexander Haig, Jr., Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, Walter Isaacson, William Safire, Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, and William Shawcross, as well as Vietnam peace talks delegate Daniel Davidson, former U.S. Ambassadors Edward Korry and David Newsom, National Security Council staffer Roger Morris, Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and Professor of Law Michael Tigar, among others.

Shedding light on a career long shrouded in secrecy, the film explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in American foreign policy and now, in the autumn of his life, one of its most controversial figures.

"Devastating!"—Stephen Holden, New York Times

"An expose of the corrosiveness of power!"—David Denby, The New Yorker

"(A) powerfully muckraking film about the accountability of public figures and about how, in regard to international justice, there can be no exceptions."—Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

"A real shocker, surprisingly revealing, fascinating and quite entertaining. A must-see film for anyone who cares about history, or plain old human decency."—Eric Monder, Film Journal

"Should be required viewing for every American, especially now."—Newsday

2004 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival
2003 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival
2002 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
2002 Toronto International Film Festival
  

80 minutes / color
Release Date: 2002
Copyright Date: 2002
Sale: $298

Subject areas:
American Studies, Asia, Biographies, Criminal Justice, Ethics, History (U.S.), History (World), Human Rights, Latin American Studies, Legal Studies, Political Science, Vietnam Era

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