Standard Operating Procedure

Filmmaker Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line) takes an unflinching look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal while meditating on the frightening side effects of the War on Terror in a thought-provoking documentary from Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth). ~ Jason Buchanan, All ...more

Errol Morris knows well the power of pictures, and in his documentary Standard Operating Procedure, he uses the now-notorious photographs taken at the U.S.-run Abu Ghriab prison as a launching point to examine the horrendous and shocking events that unfolded there, imploring viewers to ask themselves whether those controversial images can be counted on as any representation of any absolute truth. The answer, it would seem, isn't as simple as black and white, as Morris speaks with the very people ...more