Bitter Lake (2015)
Country: GB
Technical: col 140m
Director: Adam Curtis
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The history of America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, the latter's espousal of Wahhabism, and both America and Russia's flawed attempts to bring civilization to Afghanistan.
Review:
In this fascinating documentary Curtis draws connecting threads between the U.S.'s need for oil, Saudi Arabia's suspicion of western capitalism, the Taliban's adoption of Wahhabism and Osama bin Laden's rejection of both in favour of a more revolutionary form of Islamism. Most controversial in its assessment of Britain and America's involvement in Afghanistan (better off without us), it is also unnecessarily obscure in its chronology, allowing too many sequences to speak for themselves when they might have been seriously trimmed or even discarded altogether.
Country: GB
Technical: col 140m
Director: Adam Curtis
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The history of America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, the latter's espousal of Wahhabism, and both America and Russia's flawed attempts to bring civilization to Afghanistan.
Review:
In this fascinating documentary Curtis draws connecting threads between the U.S.'s need for oil, Saudi Arabia's suspicion of western capitalism, the Taliban's adoption of Wahhabism and Osama bin Laden's rejection of both in favour of a more revolutionary form of Islamism. Most controversial in its assessment of Britain and America's involvement in Afghanistan (better off without us), it is also unnecessarily obscure in its chronology, allowing too many sequences to speak for themselves when they might have been seriously trimmed or even discarded altogether.
Country: GB
Technical: col 140m
Director: Adam Curtis
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The history of America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, the latter's espousal of Wahhabism, and both America and Russia's flawed attempts to bring civilization to Afghanistan.
Review:
In this fascinating documentary Curtis draws connecting threads between the U.S.'s need for oil, Saudi Arabia's suspicion of western capitalism, the Taliban's adoption of Wahhabism and Osama bin Laden's rejection of both in favour of a more revolutionary form of Islamism. Most controversial in its assessment of Britain and America's involvement in Afghanistan (better off without us), it is also unnecessarily obscure in its chronology, allowing too many sequences to speak for themselves when they might have been seriously trimmed or even discarded altogether.