Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr (2015)
Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard, 2015
Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
Michelle Shephard, 2008
Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr is a documentary directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard in 2015 and based on the book Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr by Michelle Shephard, first published in 2008. The documentary features Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, Patricia Edney, Stephen Harper, Ahmed Said Khadr, Geoffrey O’Brian, and others.
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Is Omar Khadr a child soldier or an unrepentant terrorist? Having spent almost half his life incarcerated, with a decade of it in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre, Khadr is released without warning. This documentary finally tells his story in his own words.
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Year
2015
Minutes
80
Movie Rate
7.40
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Movie
Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr
Director: Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard
Country: Canada
Year: 2015
Length: 1h20m
Year
2008
Pages
270
Book Rate
7.68
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Book
Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
Author: Michelle Shephard
Country: Canada
First published in: 2008
Length: 270 pages
Genre: Biography
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“I’m always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.”
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