Arfan Usman, Christopher Fosh, Duane Henry
Michael Winterbottom combines fact and fiction in "The Road to Guantanamo" recounting the story of the Muslim men from Britain now known as the Tipton Three. In 2001 they set off for a wedding in Paki...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 24, 2006
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Flixster Reviews (906)
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August 19, 2008[rapping] "My name's Shafiq Rasul, and I'm from Tipton, I tell them I ain't Taliban, but they don't wanna listen. You won't believe I just came out here, for my mate's wedding, do you? I never thought my ass, would be heading for Cuba."
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June 22, 2008Based on a true story, The Road to Guantanamo tells the story of the Tipton Three, three British citizens who were arrested in Afghanistan in early 2002. The three men- Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul, were detained at Guantanamo Bay for two years. While detained they w...( read more)
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June 13, 2007The film is difficult to watch at times but thanks to it's documentry style it works. Howeve it fails to capture the fear and horrors of Guantanamo Bay. It still makes you ashamed of George W. Bush's job as president. ("I can say that because I'm not famous enough for anyone to c...( read more)
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January 16, 2007A good docudrama (is it really?) that makes you wonder. Not the best of the genre but still disturbing and somewhat controverse.
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September 18, 2009Outstanding, shocking and disturbing documentary about the Tipton Three when they were held in Guananamo Bay. Although this is also part drama (fiction), its effect on people is the desired one. Do not let this go and witness some of the existent atrocities committed nowadays.
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June 15, 2009WEAK reason to go into Iraq, these guys deserved what they got. shoddy premise for a 'Human Rights' argument.
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January 19, 2009Harsh. I hate what I have seen of the American Military. I would be terrified to meet them in a war zone.
Critic Reviews
July 6, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
June 23, 2006
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Watching this mélange of journalism and dramatic license can be enthralling and maddening at the same time, because the ring of truth, which the film has, is not the same as the truth, which remains u... full review
June 23, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
A riveting and disturbing documentary that falls short of greatness by not providing enough insight into the characters. full review
June 22, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The Road to Guantanamo, based on the testimony of three British Muslims captured in Afghanistan in 2001, is a wrenching and dismaying account of cruelty and bureaucratic indifference.
June 19, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
In the Gitmo depicted by filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, all prisoners, guilty and innocent, are treated with such systematic sadism that taking one's life is arguably a proportion... full review
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July 19, 2006awwwwwwwww it's a really sad film, the muslims get punished for sumthin they did'nt do
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