Director Robert Greenwald investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at
home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former
American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words,
Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative
journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against
blowback from the loss of innocent life.
Throughout Unmanned, Greenwald intersperses in-depth interviews with
never-before-seen footage from the tribal regions in Pakistan to humanize those
who have been impacted by our drone policy. This footage, alongside interviews
with Pakistani drone survivors, describes the brutal reality of drone attacks
ordered during the Obama Administration. The film highlights the stories of 16
year old Tariq Aziz, killed by a drone a mere week after he participated in a
public conference in Islamabad in 2011, and a school teacher, Rafiq ur Rehman,
grappling with the loss of his elderly mother and the hospitalization of his
children due to a drone strike last year, showing how delicate life can be in
this virtual war where no one is accepting responsibility for the
casualties.
In candid conversations with experts like Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of
State to Secretary of State Colin Powell; David Kilcullen former advisor to NATO
and General Petraeus; and Vicki Divoli, former deputy legal advisor to the CIA’s
counterterrorism Center, Unmanned reveals that these covert military actions are
often imprecise and result in creating more enemies for the American people who
have little knowledge of how drone targets are set and the killings carried
out.
home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former
American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words,
Pakistani families mourning loved ones and seeking legal redress, investigative
journalists pursuing the truth, and top military officials warning against
blowback from the loss of innocent life.
Throughout Unmanned, Greenwald intersperses in-depth interviews with
never-before-seen footage from the tribal regions in Pakistan to humanize those
who have been impacted by our drone policy. This footage, alongside interviews
with Pakistani drone survivors, describes the brutal reality of drone attacks
ordered during the Obama Administration. The film highlights the stories of 16
year old Tariq Aziz, killed by a drone a mere week after he participated in a
public conference in Islamabad in 2011, and a school teacher, Rafiq ur Rehman,
grappling with the loss of his elderly mother and the hospitalization of his
children due to a drone strike last year, showing how delicate life can be in
this virtual war where no one is accepting responsibility for the
casualties.
In candid conversations with experts like Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of
State to Secretary of State Colin Powell; David Kilcullen former advisor to NATO
and General Petraeus; and Vicki Divoli, former deputy legal advisor to the CIA’s
counterterrorism Center, Unmanned reveals that these covert military actions are
often imprecise and result in creating more enemies for the American people who
have little knowledge of how drone targets are set and the killings carried
out.
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