Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris, 2008

Morris takes a decidedly micro view in his examination of the offenses at Abu Gharib, leaving the root cause mining to the inevitable Frontline piece. In doing so, he crafts a strikingly effective and unsettling portrait of a group of individuals mired in a veritable swamp of delusion, apathy, rationalization, and diffusion of responsibility (see also, the bystander effect).