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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: The Great Political Films: Zero Dark Thirty
Description: The penultimate episode in our great political films series explores Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), her controversial take on the War on Terror. Tracking the CIA’s years-long pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, it’s part spy procedural, part story of a female outsider in a man’s world, and part a complex disquisition on political violence. Where does bureaucracy end and killing begin? Can torture ever be justified? And whose judgment is ultimately the one that counts?Out now: a new bonus episodes on PPF+ exploring the joys of Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop, not just o...