Joseph C. Wilson Movies
The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman teams with screenwriters Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth to streamline Joseph Wilson's and Valerie Plame's books detailing the explosive outing of undercover CIA agent Plame into a tense docudrama thriller starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. At the time her cover was blown by the George W. Bush administration, Plame (Watts) was combing Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction as part of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division. Her husband, American diplomat Joe Wilson was attempting to verify a claim that the Iraqis had recently purchased enriched uranium from Niger when the White House began beating the war drums before any solid evidence had been gathered. When Joe penned an editorial in The New York Times decrying the hasty call to war, a prolific Washington, D.C. journalist took the opportunity to reveal Plame's identity as a CIA operative, an act that not only put her career in jeopardy, but also left her various contacts overseas in a precarious position. Years later, a jobless and publicly disgraced Plame wages a vicious fight to clear her name, set the record straight, and keep her family from falling apart. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, (more)
- 2004
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Three weeks after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, filmmaker Robert Taicher and a small film crew drive from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and New York City to examine the various issues surrounding the tragedy and American foreign policy by speaking with typical Americans, government officials, foreign policy experts, and journalists. With the invasion of Afghanistan underway, and an unanticipated war with Iraq also raging, a variety of individuals including Senator George McGovern, syndicated columnists Robert Scheer and Molly Ivins, former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Noam Chomsky, former General Anthony Zinni, former Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, and Howard Zinn all offer their input on the subjects. Other topics include the history if the Cold War and CIA interventions from the 1950s through the 1970s, American support of the Afghan resistance during their war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, the United State's two wars with Iraq, and the Bush administration's tactics in the War on Terror and the implications they have on 21st Century global security. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2004
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Robert Greenwald produces and directs the documentary Uncovered: The Truth About the Iraq War. In order to expose the Bush administration for misleading the public about the Iraq war, Greenwald presents the stories of informed political figures, scientists, and intelligence officers. Includes interviews with former CIA operative Robert Baer, magazine editor David Corn, and former ambassador Joe Wilson. Features interviews with over two dozen experts, including weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and David Albright. Following a series of screenings at public libraries, coffee shops, and university campuses across the U.S., Uncovered was distributed on DVD by Disinformation. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
