The Forever Prisoner

The Forever Prisoner

120 mins | Crime, Documentary | Dec. 3, 2021

The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.

The Forever Prisoner

120 mins | Crime, Documentary | Dec. 3, 2021

The Forever Prisoner
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films
Original title The Forever Prisoner
Directors Alex Gibney
Writers

Cast

Abu Zubaydah

as Self (archive footage)

Ali Soufan

as Self

Stephen Gaudin

as Self

James Mitchell

as Self

John Rizzo

as Self

Steven Kleinman

as Self

Alberto J. Mora

as Self

Daniel Jones

as Self