Taking its lead from a magazine piece and later a full-blown book by Christopher Hitchens ("He's a sewer-pipe sucker," fumes Al Haig. "He sucks the sewer pipe"), this BBC documentary explores the question of whether Nixon's one-time Secretary of State is prosecutable as a "war criminal" for his role in Vietnam and Chile. Not really much of a movie, more like an expanded segment of 60 Minutes, it might not persuade you that these charges are anything other than rhetorical, but the compelling case will at least make you wonder how Kissinger so successfully slipped through the post-Watergate purge. Narrated by Brian Cox; written by Alex Gibney; directed by Eugene Jarecki. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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