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Unmanned: America's Drone Wars
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Unmanned: America's Drone Wars

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Robert Greenwald spent months in Pakistan for this Brave New Films investigation into the U.S. drone program, gathering more than seventy interviews with survivors, journalists, and military insiders. Brandon Bryant, a former Air Force drone sensor operator, describes watching people die on a screen and the guilt that followed him out of the service. The film centers two Pakistani cases: Tariq Aziz, a 16-year-old killed days after speaking at an Islamabad rally against drone strikes, and Rafiq ur Rehman, a schoolteacher whose mother was killed and whose children were injured when a strike hit his home. It covers the 2011 Datta Khel strike on a tribal jirga that killed around forty-one people, and sets John Brennan's public claim of zero collateral deaths against a Pakistani court ruling that the strikes constitute a war crime. Community leaders, a psychiatrist treating trauma in Waziristan, and defense-industry lobbying for continued drone contracts round out the picture, building toward the film's argument that the program generates more enemies than it eliminates.