2008
R
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 56 m

2008
R
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 56 m

Summary Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aber...

2008
R
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 56 m

2008
R
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 56 m

Standard Operating Procedure

Name: Standard Operating Procedure
Genre: Documentary, Crime, War
Released: 2008-04-25
Duration: 1 min 56 s
Rating: 70
Cast: Megan Ambuhl Graner, Javal Davis, Ken Davis, Anthony Diaz, Tim Dugan

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 31 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Morris challenges us to understand what the pictures show and what they don't show, and to see them in context. And he confronts us with the most important question surrounding them: Do they reveal a crime, an aberration in the system or standard operating procedure?

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Entertainment Weekly

Morris, using a welter of photographs (many of which we haven't seen), constructs a day-to-day sense of how Abu Ghraib descended into a medieval hell.

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Film Threat

Not only does Standard Operating Procedure look closely at visual evidence and it's true meaning, it also strives to question the validity of any given photo and, digging deeper still, the meta meaning of a photographic image.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

In presenting their testimony to the jury of public opinion, Morris would seem to be building a case for absolving some of them of mistreatment charges and implicitly asking for an investigation of those who were not charged.

By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

A big, provocative and -- it goes without saying -- disturbing work, though what makes it most provocative is that its greatest ambitions are for its own visual style.

By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

Time

Morris's manner of relating this story is very often quite inappropriate to its substance. It is a sordid and appalling tale and what it demands is almost an anti-style -- rough, crude, grim, technically poor imagery unrelieved by sleek, slick fancy work. If you are going to rub our noses in this ugliness, you must not let up until, perhaps, we have learned our lesson.

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Village Voice

Since "The Thin Blue Line's" remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic--lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry.

By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Participant, Sony Pictures Classics

Release Date Apr 25, 2008

Duration 1 h 56 m

Rating R

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Tagline The War on Terror will be photographed

Website http://www.sonyclassics.com/standardoperatingprocedure/

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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

• 2 Nominations

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Megan Ambuhl Graner

Self

Javal Davis

Self

Ken Davis

Self

Anthony Diaz

Self - Former MP

Tim Dugan

Self

Lynndie England

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Jeffrey Frost

Self - Former MP

Sabrina Harman

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Janis Karpinski

Self

Roman Krol

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Brent Pack

Self

Jeremy Sivits

Self

Christopher Bradley

Military Police

Sarah Denning

Military Police

Robin Dill

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Paul Ekman

Self

Joshua Feinman

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Jeff L. Green

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Roy Halo

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Cyrus King

Military Intelligence

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