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- 2003
- First Run Features
- 55 m
- 2003
- First Run Features
- 55 m
Summary A sober, in-depth examination of the complexities of the suicide bombing phenomenon. (First Run / Icarus Films)
Directed By: Ilan Ziv
- 2003
- First Run Features
- 55 m
- 2003
- First Run Features
- 55 m
Human Weapon
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Summary A sober, in-depth examination of the complexities of the suicide bombing phenomenon. (First Run / Icarus Films)
Directed By: Ilan Ziv
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
74
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Chilling and instructive.
A gripping and important documentary.
In an attempt to understand this phenomenon, Ziv interviews leaders of terrorist groups like Hamas, failed hit men now in jail and relatives of those who died carrying out these attacks. The effect is frightening.
"There is no antidote for the human bomb," one Sri Lankan official flatly states, but Ziv's film offers a number of important insights into a phenomenon that's only gaining momentum.
Religious fanaticism gets even scarier in this hour-long doc.
It's frightening because it's so effective in fomenting fear and because it's so easy to recruit bombers among repressed and hopeless societies.
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Production Company
ARTE,
Amithos Films,
Arte Production,
Europe Images International,
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR),
Point du Jour,
Tamouz Media
Release Date Jun 25, 2003
Duration 55 m
Genres