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Drone Wars: Recruited Video Gamers Become Killers
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Drone Wars: Recruited Video Gamers Become Killers

2017 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

American drone pilots fly missions over Pakistan from windowless trailers on US bases, watching live video feeds and firing missiles at targets thousands of miles away. The film follows the recruitment pipeline that gets them there, starting at video game conventions where military booths court teenagers already trained on joysticks and first-person shooters. Interviews with operators and recruiters lay out how the skills transfer, and how differently the job feels once the targets are real people rather than pixels. The footage moves between control-room routines, convention floors thick with military marketing, and the psychological toll described by pilots who describe killing from an office chair and then driving home for dinner. The film raises the uncomfortable overlap between entertainment and warfare, asking what it means when the same reflexes built for a game are repurposed for a strike in Waziristan. It stays close to the people doing the job rather than the policy debate around them, letting their own accounts carry the weight.