The Forever Prisoner

Name: The Forever Prisoner
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: December 6, 2021
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Abu Zubaydah, Alberto J. Mora, Ali Soufan, Chantell Higgins, Daniel Jones

2021

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HBO | Release Date (Streaming): December 6, 2021

Starring: Abu Zubaydah, Alberto J. Mora, Ali Soufan, Chantell Higgins, Daniel Jones, Hesham Abu Zubaidah, James Mitchell, John Rizzo, Joseph Margulies, Stephen Gaudin, Steven Kleinman

Summary: HBO's documentary tells the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at GuantánamoHBO's documentary tells the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America's own ideals of justice and due process. [HBO]… Expand

Director: Alex Gibney

Genre(s): Crime, Documentary

Runtime: 119 min

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Brian Lowry

Dec 6, 2021

The Forever Prisoner asks the right questions regarding not just Zubaydah but the broader prosecution of the war against terrorism. As the film makes clear, it's the answers that have proven elusive. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Dec 6, 2021

The extremes uncovered in this film become revealing of what we accept as necessary, in what we as a nation rationalize as justice even without procedure. It is eye-opening, and yet also like Gibney’s best work, affirming in the worst ways. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Dec 3, 2021

Gibney’s challenging interview style, the uncompromising tone of his questions, and the way he undercuts Mitchell’s self-aggrandizing martyrdom (and conveniently murky timeline regarding the deployment of EITs in the field) are satisfying distillations of what so many people who recognize Mitchell as a war criminal who got away would probably like to say. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Dec 29, 2021

Nothing in The Forever Prisoner feels all that revelatory, but the thing that’s essential in the doc is the reminder that for all of the story’s familiarity, it reflects a situation that has been barely ameliorated over more than a decade. Read full review

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