
USA. 2002, 95 minutes, color, video
Directors: John Friedman and Eric Nadler
Centerpiece - Human Rights Watch Film Festival--Lincoln Center, New
York, 2002
Distinguished Documentary Award--International Documentary Association,
2002
Nominee - Best Documentary--National Film Board of Canada, 2002
This incredible
documentary is a real-life espionage thriller which traces Saddam Hussein's
nuclear program back to the Nazi atomic bomb project. The film focuses
on a German spy who sold secret nuclear blueprints to Iraq and a German
corporation that hid Nazi gold and later supplied Iraq and Pakistan
with atomic weapons materials.
Guest: Filmmaker
John Friedman
Sponsor: Facing History and Ourselves and The American Jewish Committee