Dirty Wars ★★★★
Directed by: Rick Rowley
Starring: Jeremy Scahill
Running time: 87 minutes
Parental guidance: 14A, mature themes, disturbing content
Playing at: ByTowne Cinema

The sinking feeling comes around the midway point in Rick Rowley’s documentary, shortly after we’re presented with the images of dead babies and lifeless children stacked like cordwood in the dust.

They were members of a poor Yemeni tribe, and the movie alleges they were murdered by the U.S. military as part of a large-scale, but covert, war being carried out by drones and black ops in various parts of the Arab world.