Countdown to Sundance 2007 GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB director Rory Kennedy

It's a good thing that Rory Kennedy doesn't depend on her documentaries for a living. She usually makes Docs. about topics no one really wants to think about, but should.

Thanks Rory, for all you do. You have a lot of the father you never knew, in you.

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Rory Kennedy’s new documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib seeks to reignite the conversation about what happened at the prison where the infamous photographs of Americans torturing Iraqis were taken. Using new first-hand accounts from the perpetrators, witnesses and victims, the film not only tries to understand how young American men and women could commit such heinous acts of violence, but ultimately asks—do we want to be a nation that tortures?Rory Kennedy’s new documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib seeks to reignite the conversation about what happened at the prison where the infamous photographs of Americans torturing Iraqis were taken. Using new first-hand accounts from the perpetrators, witnesses and victims, the film not only tries to understand how young American men and women could commit such heinous acts of violence, but ultimately asks—do we want to be a nation that tortures?