Special Events

Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic

Join us for a Special Screening of Award-Winning Film ‘Human Terrain’ with Filmmaker James Der Derian on Sunday February 26th at 11:30AM.

Presented by the SALISBURY FORUM in collaboration with the FilmWorks Forum of The Moviehouse.

Open to the Public, Free of Charge

‘Human Terrain’ is two stories in one. The first exposes a new Pentagon effort to enlist the best and the brightest in a struggle for hearts and minds. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military initiates ‘Human Terrain Systems’, a controversial program that seeks to make cultural awareness the centerpiece of the new counterinsurgency strategy. Designed to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack as a misguided and unethical effort to gather intelligence and target enemies. Gaining rare access to wargames in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth, ‘Human Terrain’ takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine and a shadowy collaboration between American academics and the military.

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Showtimes:

Sunday February 26, 2012 at 11:30AM

Open to the Public, Free of Charge

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