Dan Reed Movies

Newsweek International editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria narrates this sobering look at the November 2008 terrorist attacks that rocked the Indian port city of Mumbai to its very core. After hijacking a small fishing boat and ruthlessly killing the captain and crew, ten young Pakistani terrorists slipped quietly into Mumbai to wage a three-day campaign of death and destruction. With cell phones to coordinate their attacks and machine guns to mow down unsuspecting civilians by the dozen, the terrorists killed 170 people and wounded over 300 over the course of 60 harrowing hours. In this documentary, viewers are offered a comprehensive overview of the devastating attacks, and the tool they took on the people of Mumbai. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A lavish country party that should have been the best night of their lives unexpectedly begets a shocking cycle of violence for a confident career woman and her handsome young love interest in this brutal and unforgiving thriller starring Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer. Adam (Dyer) is just getting his career off of the ground, so when the beautiful, older, and much more professionally experienced Alice (Anderson) invites him to a party, he readily accepts. Upon arriving at the classy soirée the pair immediately discover that they share an exhilarating sense of sexual chemistry, eventually wandering off alone for some highly charged sex. Still reeling from their earth-shaking bout of lovemaking, Adam and Alice speed down a quiet country road and suddenly find themselves thrown into the middle of a vicious attack in which both are severely injured. But their physical scars don't run nearly as deep as their emotional scars, and before long Alice becomes overtaken by her drive for vengeance and determined to make her tormentors pay for their violent transgression. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In 1998, filmmaker Dan Reed and cameraman Jacek Petrycki traveled to the Drenica Valley as the civil war in Kosovo came to a head. They spent much of the year there, and The Valley documents the lives of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict, as well as the violence and brutality they confront on a daily basis. Dispensing with narration, The Valley allows its subjects to speak for themselves, giving a sense of how bitter the divide had become between Islamics and Ethinic Albanians, and how cruel fate had been to those caught in the middle of the fighting, as women and children who've lost their families shiver in makeshift huts, and people discover the bullet-riddled bodies of their loved ones. The Valley was produced for British television and was first screened in America as part of the 2000 San Francisco Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi