- The Panama Deception
Infobox Film
name = The Panama Deception
caption =
director =Barbara Trent
producer =
writer =David Kaspar
starring =
music =Chuck Wild
cinematography =Manuel Becker Michael Dobo
distributor =
released = flagicon|USA31 July 1992
runtime = 91 min.
country =USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:37153
imdb_id = 0105089"The Panama Deception" is a controversial
documentary film that won the1992 Academy Award for Documentary Feature . The film is critical of the actions of the US military during the1989 invasion of Panama by theUnited States , covering the conflicting reasons for the invasion and the depicting of the US media as biased. It was directed byBarbara Trent of theEmpowerment Project and was narrated by actressElizabeth Montgomery .One of the many allegations made by the film is that the
United States tested some form oflaser or energy weapon during the invasion. The film also includes footage of mass graves uncovered after the US troops had withdrawn, and depicts some of the 20,000 refugees who fled the invasion.External links
*imdb title|id=0105089|title=The Panama Deception
* [http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/panama.html Website about the film]###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Academy Award for Documentary Feature
years=1992
before="In the Shadow of the Stars "
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