AFTER stumbling across evidence of a botched secret night-raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill embarks on a chilling and revelatory journey into the dark underbelly of the ‘war on terror’, as recorded in the film Dirty Wars.

Booked into City Screen, York, for an 8.30pm screening on Wednesday, Richard Rowley’s documentary recounts how a witness swears to having seen American soldiers digging bullets out of dead pregnant women.

Intent on exposing the truth, Jeremy Scahill is drawn into a disquieting world of black ops, kill lists and drone strikes that are unknown to the public and carried out by men who do not exist on paper in an era when the ethics of state security grow thornier by the day.

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“We’re delighted to be welcoming Brenda Coughlin, one of the producers of Dirty Wars; Christo Hird, managing editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism; and Katie Taylor, of Reprieve, for this discussion,” says Dave Taylor, City Screen’s marketing manager.

The panel will be chaired by Lars Waldorf, from the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.

City Screen hopes to project a Drone Shadow artwork, created specially by artist James Bridle, outside the Coney Street cinema on December 4.

For tickets, phone 0871 902 5726 or book online at picturehouses.co.uk/york