

“The truth is held captive.”
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.
Directed by Alex Gibney, Richard Perello, Lisa Heller
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Released
December 3, 2021
2h 0m
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Abu Zubaydah
Self (archive footage)

Ali Soufan
Self
Stephen Gaudin
Self
James Mitchell
Self
John Rizzo
Self
Hesham Abu Zubaidah
Self
Joseph Margulies
Self
Chantell Higgins
Self
Steven Kleinman
Self

Lawrence Wilkerson
Self
Alberto J. Mora
Self
Daniel Jones
Self

Alex Gibney
Self- Narrator

George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)

Dick Cheney
Sef (archive footage)

Colin Powell
Self (archive footage)

Robert Mueller
Self (archive photos)

George Tenet
Self (archive footage)

Kathryn Bigelow
Self (archive footage)

Chris De Burgh
Self (archive footage)