He’s courageous for many reasons, beginning with his iron willed determinism for truth. It’s a cliche but he’s earned it–he goes where few filmmakers have gone before, putting himself in harm’s way in a double role as investigative journalist and artist. His bravery was the empowering asset behind 2012s The Act of Killing, the companion piece to his latest film, The Look of Silence, where they each act as both prequel and sequel to the other. He’s courageous because he spent years in Indonesia with psychopaths, tyrants, and killers, who he was scared at any moment might turn against him. They were the perpetrators of the 1965 Suharto Coup and genocide, where anywhere from 500,000-1,000,000 (or more) people were murdered after being branded communists by the corrupt military democracy.