torture

Sergeant Edgar Brighton of the Shadow Squadron is in Colombia, assisting on an anti-drug operation--but when he is captured and tortured by the rebels he must find a way to escape before they break him.

The fall of the house of Usher: A young man visits the home of his bride-to-be, and finds her brother willing to bury her alive to prevent the continuation of the family bloodline, which he believes is tainted by an evil curse. The pit and the pendulum: Francis Barnard travels to Spain upon hearing of his sister's death there, where he discovers she may be buried alive by her husband--the son of a notorious Spanish Inquisition torturer.

The family and friends of a Haitian immigrant living in New York City describe his tortured past.

Documents the murder case of Joelito Filartiga, a Paraguay boy who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the Paraguayan police. Describes how Joelito's father, Dr. Joel Filartiga, pursued justice and worked with the United States government to arrest and try the policeman responsible for his son's death, who was hiding in America. Explains the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789, which allows U.S. courts to try international cases on behalf of foreign human rights.

Interviews, eyewitness accounts, and political sources help chronicle the personal life, rise to power, arrest, and imprisonment of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, the first former head of state to be arrested on charges of crimes against humanity.

Interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims examining the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison. Probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to commit these atrocious acts.

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him.

Detailed investigation of mind control, medical torture, and other frightening exploitations of the human psyche and body by doctors working for the CIA.

A study of S-21, a secret facility in Phnom Penh where enemies of the Khmer Rouge regime were interrogated, tortured, imprisoned, and executed for alleged counterrevolutionary crimes.