The Mauritanian is a political and legal drama based on the 2015 memoir ‘Guantanamo Diary’ by Mohamedou Ould Salahi. The adaptation directed by Kevin Macdonald, tracks Salahi’s experience of being held for 14 years without charge at the infamous internment camp. There has been some coverage of what happened at Guantanamo Bay with particular focus on the inhumane interrogation and torture tactics and techniques. The Mauritanian takes a more intimate approach by journeying with one of the inmates instead of taking a fixed outsider’s perspective. The Adam Driver-led drama, The Report, did a great job of representing the cover up from within the CIA as an independent audit investigation recovered reams of documentation revealing some of the oversights and blind justifications in the post 9/11 era. Following the terror attacks, the US did everything in their power to gain intelligence, detaining suspects and using unethical methods to extract information and coerced confessions. Taken under duress, much of what was extracted wasn’t useful and upended American values when it came to human rights and dignity. While powerful and as brutal as