Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond. Part political thriller and part detective story, this is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report into a U.S. night raid gone terribly wrong in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress
Oscar Nomination; Sundance Film Festival Award; CPH:DOX 2013 Award; Warsaw International Film Festival Award; Telluride Mountain Film Festival Award; Little Rock Film Festival Award; Golden Rock Documentary Award; Boston Independent Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
