We Are Not Ghouls (2022)

Directed by

Chris James Thompson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

3.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that follows a military lawyer as she works to free a detainee from Guantanamo Bay. It shows her legal battles and the personal cost of the case.

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What happens

We Are Not Ghouls is a 2022 documentary film about JAG attorney Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley's work to free Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. The film was directed by Chris James Thompson and is based on the book The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law. The documentary premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in the Documentary Spotlight category. The film then played at the 2022 DOC NYC Film Festival before being released nationally in February 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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