Emmy Award winner The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib told the horrific story of abuse and torture at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Academy award-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty generated controversy for its portrayal of alleged torture of detainees in order to gain information important to the U.S regarding the location of Osama bin Laden. Now comes a new part of the story you may not have heard before, the role American doctors had in the facilitation of detainee interrogations.
According to producer/director Martha Davis, Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature-length documentary that involves the involvement of American Medical Doctors who assisted in interrogations. Martha Davis is a clinical psychologist and retired Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where she completed a study of behavioral cues to stress and deception in videotaped criminal confessions. The experience led her to do research on how psychologists and physicians assisted the interrogations.
Narrated by Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl, Doctors of the Dark Side will be released on all major digital platforms and DVD May 7, 2013 by Shelter Island at a suggested retail price of $24.98.
This publication’s editorial staff or writers did not see the film or check out the sources so it cannot recommend it at this time. This edited press release is for informational use only, for more information seek out a trusted website that may have additional reading matter.
Writer, critic, film editor John Delia, Sr. has been on all sides of the movie business from publications to film making. He has worked as a film critic with ACED Magazine for more than 20 years and other publications for a total of 40 years. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Florida. John is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association and Critics Association of Central Florida Send John a message at jdelia@acedmagazine.com
