The Road to Guantanamo

THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for more than two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Known as the “Tipton Three,” in reference to their home town near Birmingham, the three were eventually returned to Britain and released—still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal. The film has already engendered significant controversy due to its critical stance toward the American and British governments. Additional controversy was generated because of the cast members’ detainment by British immigration authorities upon their return from the film’s premiere at the Berlin film festival.

Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led from the trio setting out from Tipton in the British Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began its bombing campaign, to their eventual capture by the Northern Alliance and their imprisonment in Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantanamo.

Winner of best narrative feature and best ensemble acting honors at the ninth annual Newport International Film Festival.

"A wrenching and dismaying account of cruelty and bureaucratic indifference." (New York Times)

"Chilling." (Boston Globe)