Two new films which expose unpleasant truths about Guantanamo and the battle for Iraq are coming under pressure from censors in the US.
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has censored a poster advertising a film about the Tipton Three (based on the story of three friends from a north of England town who got caught up in the war on terror) called The Road to Guantanamo, that showed a hooded and blindfolded man hanging by his shackled wrists. Also, the makers of Baghdad ER, a documentary about a US military combat hospital, said Wednesday that Francis Harvey, the secretary of the army, had demanded last-minute changes to the film.
The Guantanamo film ran into difficulties with the MPAA last month when it submitted its advertising material for customary review. To the surprise of Howard Cohen, president of Roadside Attractions which is distributing the film in the US, the association demanded that the poster for the R-rated film be toned down.
"It was the head in the burlap sack that pushed it over the edge for them," Cohen said. The film will be advertised instead by a poster which shows only a pair of shackled hands and arms
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