Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Secrets, politics, and torture / directed b Michael Kirk ; written by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser ; produced by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser ; a Frontline production with the Kirk Documentary Group ; WGBH.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

The dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did and whether it worked.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TVPG.

Series:

Frontline

Frontline (Television program)

Subjects:

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Extraordinary rendition -- United States.

Detention of persons -- Government policy -- United States.

Torture -- Government policy -- United States.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.