Those interviewed in “Standard Operating Procedure” are, for the most part, small fry, young guards and other workers who were not properly instructed in gaining information (mostly about the ...

It’s been twenty years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line — a found “noir” that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder. Gathering evidence and dramatizing testimony, Morris’s movie ...

Morris’s new film, “Standard Operating Procedure,” opens with a photograph of a sunset. Many photographs follow — of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib humiliated, abused, and dead. What could be more ...

Iraq, 2003. Thousands of fleeing civilians and comparable numbers rounded up on extremely tenuous suspicion of involvement in the full-scale insurgency cower at its epicentre in Abu Ghraib prison ...

Minutes before the Boston-area premiere (at Brandeis) of “Standard Operating Procedure” on April 17, Academy Award winner Errol Morris spoke to BrandeisNOW about his startling work on the Abu Ghraib ...

Anyone who hasn't spent the last few years under a rock has by now seen the notorious photographs taken by American guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The images, which emerged in early 2004, show ...

The first documentary to be unspooled in competition at Berlin, Errol Morris’ “Standard Operating Procedure” not only examines a tragic and shameful chapter in U.S. military history but also plays ...

Standard Operating Procedure (R) Sony Pictures Classics (118 min.) Directed by Errol Morris. Opens Friday at theaters in New York. THREE STARS You might think that after all the films that have come ...

Lynndie England speaks in Errol Morris’s latest documentary, Standard Operating Procedure. She’s filmed, like many of her fellow ex-soldiers, in close-up against a neutral background, her face filled ...

“He couldn’t get over Harman’s smile,” recollected Morris, director of 2004’s “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” “I said, ‘What is the story here? The story isn’t ...

Here, author and journalist Gourevitch and documentary filmmaker Morris have compiled the complete story of Abu Ghraib, from Iraqi prison to prison of occupying American forces, and the crimes its ...

“At first I had to laugh, so I took a picture,” Specialist Sabrina Harmon wrote in a letter home from her new job as a guard at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, describing the sight of a prisoner in ...