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“Required viewing for every American, especially now.” - NEW YORK NEWSDAY
THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER


Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Scene from THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER - Click here to see more photos Produced by Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki
USA / UK 2002
80 Minutes
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Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens book, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney have constructed a movie which is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. Some of Kissinger's most ardent supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, William Safire) vie with his detractors (writers Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, Hitchens himself).

Charges that Kissinger was instrumental in creating the coup that toppled Chilean President Allende, that he undermined LBJ's Vietnam peace talks (prolonging the war by seven years), engineered the secret bombing of Cambodia, and approved Indonesian president Suharto's use of U.S. arms to massacre 100,000 East Timorese have resulted in summonses by five nations seeking to depose him. The film plumbs the depth of one man's soul, as it questions tenets of international law: do war criminals reside only in nations whose interests are inimical to our own -- or are we our own worst enemy?

“Should be required viewing for every American, especially now.”
- John Anderson, Newsday

"Devastating!" - Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"Explosive!" - The Independent (UK)

"Damning!" - The Guardian (UK)


For sale at the concession stand starting Wednesday, September 25: THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER (Book) by Christopher Hitchens $12.95 (tax included)

THE TRIAL OF
HENRY KISSINGER

(Book) by Christopher Hitchens


Selections from Amazon.com:
Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry A. Kissinger
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?

by Henry A. Kissinger
Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger
Diplomacy

by Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson

Kissinger: A Biography

by Walter Isaacson
Years of Renewal by Henry A. Kissinger
Years of Renewal

by Henry A. Kissinger
The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscowby William Burr (Editor), Henry Kissinger (Editor)
The Kissinger Transcripts:
The Top-Secret Talks
With Beijing and Moscow

by William Burr (Editor),
Henry Kissinger (Editor)
Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of Stateby Gary Allen
Kissinger: The Secret Side
of the Secretary of State

by Gary Allen

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