Turn or Burn: Tribeca Film Festival 2025

In the ton of archive footage from the Afghan War in Bodyguard of Lies are shots of a playground where US Army soldiers have wrapped the children’s slide in barbed wire, but since that perfect visual summary isn’t in the press kit this one of a plane failing to meet its basic goals will have to do. The documentary screened at the Tribeca Film Festival just as the US ponders doing Asia War Again,…