A tortured look at movies

The Marquise de Brinvilliers being tortured before her beheading.. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"The Battle of ALgiers," (1966) is the mother of all films featuring graphic depictions of torture.  The most recent entrant is "Zero Dark Thirty."

http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/12/21/torture-at-the-movies/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

In between, we have plenty of other examples, e.g:

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/reviews/mighty-heart.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/reviews/gods-and-men.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/reviews/rescue-dawn.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/reviews/syriana.htm