This documentary exposes the growing American military-entertainment complex, revealing the close relationships that the military has developed with the commercial video game industry and with Hollywood, in order to create “compelling” tools for recruiting and training purposes.

The days of the Gulf War seen from the window of a television in Brooklyn.

As Barack Obama announces more US troops to train the Afghanistan army, John D McHugh reports on how US soldiers view their Afghan counterparts as an ill-disciplined, badly led bunch with a crippling taste for hashish.

In The Diary of an Unknown Soldier Watkins initiated a style of filmmaking which he has consistently developed and experimented with in all of his professional films… Watkins refused to be constrained by cinematic conventions. In this film, he freed the camera from the limitations of a fixed vantage point and forced it to take part in the action so that he could create strikingly realistic, almost newsreel-like, effects and directly involve the viewing audience in the events it was witnessing. The Diary of an Unknown Soldier, however, is not limited strictly to techniques of realism. It contains a curious, almost uneasy, mixture of expressionist and documentary styles, and one suspects that the financial and physical limitations that Watkins faced because of equipment and location problems played a major part in the evolution of this syncretistic approach.

A story of the war in Iraq from a perspective rarely seen. The primary point of view is Iraqi - a family grieving the tragic death of its eldest son. After years of hard work, Ra'ad, an Iraqi portrait photographer, has saved enough money to open his own shop. On the night of the opening, while volunteering to guard the ancient mosque in Kadhimiya, Ra'ad is shot and killed by an American patrol.

"Is an homage to and commentary on the female action adventure game Tomb Raider and it's busty virtual superstar Lara Croft. I make Lara explore the game environment at the edges of the programming world created for her. The limited inventory of Lara's gestures and the militaristic scenarios of the game are considered from a feminist perspective in analysing the symbolic feminine and the popular culture that has sprung up around Lara Croft". Quotations are from three authors . Fernando Pessoa, Joanna Russ, Sun Ra.

For after all, how do we know that 2 and 2 make four? or that the force of gravity works? or that the past is unchangeable? The doubts of Winston Smith (main character of George Orwell's novel 1984) and found footage from "Operation Iraqi Freedom" are the starting point for a meditation on the state of the human being.

Border Crossings touches on crucial issues that surround the increased militarization of the U.S. / Mexico border. The United States Border Patrol, now part of the new formed Department of Homeland Security, has a history of abusing its power. Examples of this abuse range from sexual assault to unnecessary use of deadly force.