Standard Operating Procedure

Name: Standard Operating Procedure
Released: 2008-4-25
Cast: Megan Ambuhl Graner, Javal Davis, Ken Davis, Joshua Feinman, Sarah Denning

R
1h 56m
2008

79%

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Witness one of the worst debacles in American military history. Enter Abu Ghraib. This award-winning documentary uncovers the dramatic series of events that led to torture, international outrage, and forced a president to apologize to the world.

Director:

Errol Morris

Producer:

Errol Morris, Julie Ahlberg, Julie Bilson Ahlberg

Writer:

Errol Morris

Cast:

Megan Ambuhl Graner, Javal Davis, Ken Davis, Joshua Feinman, Sarah Denning, Cyrus King

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

79%

Critics Consensus: Well researched and finely crafted, Standard Operating Procedure is another gem from master documentarian Errol Morris.

Reviews

World Socialist Web Site

Joanne Laurier

The documentary and accompanying book contain a good deal of valuable and harrowing material.

Even the title of this nuanced and layered interrogation doesn't come into focus until the third act, as Oscar-winning doc-maker Errol Morris gets too close for comfort to the multiple deadly meanings behind the shocking pictures from Abu Ghraib prison.

June 1, 2020

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The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

Dan DiNicola

Errol Morris' documentary... should be seen by all Americans but probably will viewed only by a relative handful.

Morris eschews sensationalist reporting to conduct a procedural investigation that wonders what the photos tell us about the morality of those commanding the American forces.

November 4, 2018

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The New York Review of Books

Ian Buruma

Both Morris's film and the book based on it by Gourevitch are devastating, even without going into detail about the complicity, or indeed responsibility, of top officials in the Bush administration.

August 29, 2018

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