The road to Guantanamo /
A trio of British Muslims vacationing in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 are captured by the American military and sent to the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp. For the next two years, they are imprisoned without any charges officially being filed. They are tortured and interrogated relentlessly, in ho...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Winterbottom, Michael. composer. Whitecross, Mat. composer. Escott, Harry, actor. Nyman, Molly, actor. Ahmed, Riz, 1982- actor. Harun, Farhad, actor. Siddiqui, Waqar, Usman, Arfan, |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Roadside Attractions (Firm) FilmFour (Firm) Revolution Films. Screen West Midlands (Firm) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) |
| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English Urdu |
| Language notes: | In English, Urdu with yellow English subtitles. Closed-captioned. |
| Edition: | Anamorphic widescreen format (1.78:1). |
| Imprint: | Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006] |
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| Summary: | A trio of British Muslims vacationing in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 are captured by the American military and sent to the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp. For the next two years, they are imprisoned without any charges officially being filed. They are tortured and interrogated relentlessly, in hopes of getting them to "confess" their nonexistent link to Al-Qaida. A fictionalized account of the actual experiences of "The Tipton Three," incorporating interviews, news footage and extensive reenactments by professional actors. A trio of British Muslims, known as the Tipton Three, were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge. The Road to Guantanamo is a terrifying first-hand account of three young men, British nationals of Muslim faith who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the Tipton Three, in reference to their home town in Britain, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led the trio from Tipton in the British Midlands to a wedding in Pakistan to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began its bombing campaign, to eventual capture by the Northern Alliance to imprisonment at Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo." |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a feature film in 2006. Filmed on location in the UK, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details: | DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: R. |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Marcel Zyskind ; music by Harry Escott & Molly Nyman. |
| Cast: | Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddqui, Arfan Usman. |
| ISBN: | 1424830303 9781424830305 |