In the name of the state
By: produced by 3BM for Discovery ; written, produced & directed by Jon Blair
Contributors: Pigott-Smith, Tim; 3BM Television (Firm); Discovery Channel (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: The age of terror; POL 340 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Documentary films; State-sponsored terrorism
Other titles: In the name of the state, when might makes right
Description: "This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina's dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people. U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua via the Contras is also analyzed. Joseph Kennedy II; Duane Clarridge, former chief of the CIA's Latin American division; and Bayardo Izaba, of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, are spotlighted, as are retired General Martin Balza, former head of Argentina's armed forces; former interrogator Hector Vergez; Estela Barnes de Carlotto, president of the Association of Grandmothers of the May Square; and forensic anthropologist Luis Fondebrider, who is committed to identifying remains of the disappeared"--Container.
Notes: Series title on container: The age of terror, a survey of modern terrorism.

Music composed and performed by Evelyn Glennie and Greg Malcangi ; photography, Sam Montague ; editor, Matthew Briggs ; producer, Dominic Streatfeild-James.

Narrator, Tim Pigott-Smith.

DVD.