The Road to Guantánamo is the story of a trio of British Muslims who were held without charge in Guantanamo Bay for two years. The hybrid doc/dramatization blends news images, documentary footage, and dramatic re-creations of the young men's experiences as detainees at the detention center. Called the "Tipton Three," in reference to their hometown in the Midlands, the young men traveled from Britain to Pakistan just two weeks after 9/11, ostensibly to visit family and find a bride for one of them. For reasons that are never satisfactorily explained, the three tourists crossed over the open border to neighboring Afghanistan as the United States and its allies were ramping up their military campaign against the Taliban. After bouncing around from Kandahar to Kabul, the men tried to escape the mayhem by bussing back to Pakistan, but they somehow wound up in the Taliban stronghold of Kunduz, where they were seized as foreign combatants. From there, it was off to Camp X-Ray and later Camp Delta, where they were housed in chain-linked open cells in the hot sun and subjected to grueling interrogation sessions. More at roadtoguantanamomovie.com
2006, color, 1 hour 35 minutes, UK