Dirty Wars

Dirty Wars (2013) — a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — follows investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he traces America's covert military operations across three continents. What starts as a report on a single nighttime raid in Afghanistan keeps pulling him forward: into Yemen, Somalia, and classified programs run by a command structure Washington barely acknowledges.

Scahill sits with families of people killed on no-declared-war soil and pieces together a machinery of violence that operates well outside the bounds of any congressional debate. He is not a neutral observer. The film makes no pretense of being one either.

Director Rick Rowley shoots with a propulsive, almost thriller-like momentum unusual for the genre. The film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 2014. Stream Dirty Wars online on iFILM.