The Trial review – searing record of Argentina’s courtroom reckoning with its brutal ‘dirty war’

Footage from the 1985 Trial of the Juntas is expertly edited into a documentary providing unforgettable witness to the repression that ‘disappeared’ thousands From 1974 to 1983, the Argentine military junta waged a “dirty war” against its own citizens under the pretext of national security. Tens of thousands of people from all social strata were marked down as subversives, and “disappeared” – murdered at the hands of the state. Composed entirely of courtroom footage from the landmark 1985 Tri...

By Phuong Le