The Oath (2010)

Poitras is such an excellent filmmaker . This is worth downloading a VPN for - the film is totally unavailable on American streaming or torrent websites, except for ordering a DVD of it. It’s great

rowan_blanchard

The title is misleading; there's not just one OATH here, there are many. Vowing commitment to jihad is the big one. But Poitras points to many other oaths that are followed/not followed in the post-9/11 world: to not torture prisoners; to uphold the constitution (and its…

Nat Zingg

A conflicting & fascinating portrait of abrasive political motivations in a world forced through a self-preserving American ideology, as well as the guilt that seeps in for having broken one's professional, spiritual, or personal oaths. In other words, it's "Blue…

Lena Frances

Completely objective, non-judgmental which, considering the topic, is pretty hard to pull off. 20+ years post 9/11 now and seeing how we abandoned so much of what made us American - let’s talk about that oath. How do you convict someone for breaking a law that didn’t exist…

Darin R 🎬 🎥

I assumed I was sitting down for a straightforward look at Guantanamo, torture and coerced confessions, and what I got was much more. The film introduces us to the story of Salim Hamdan, one of Osama bin Laden's drivers, jailed in Cuba for six years after being captured…

Manifesto734

Definitely more interesting than My Country My Country, but still stylistically dull. I hate the amount of pieces of text that come on screen, could've done with some narration instead.

poopie

The Oath is a double entendre of not just the jihadist oath but the oath to protect and serve. Poitras approaches this evidentially quite unbiasedly. What it shows are only absolute truths and for that it is not available to the American public. It is contradictory of every…

3liy4

vanity makes people do weird thing like agree to be in documentaries that prob will make them look kinda dumb

dianatnguyen

There are, as plenty of people have pointed out, several oaths at work in this film. There's the ostensible subject Abu Jandal and his oaths first to al-Qaeda then to his rehabilitation under Yemeni Law, but equally there's the US Constitution, the US law and its servants…

Ewan Munro