Amerikan Passport

In this riveting indie documentary, Reed Paget, a 23-year-old photographer, traveled the globe and photographed political hotspots ranging from the massacre in Tianneman square in 1989 to the SCUD missile attacks in Iraq in 1991. You name it; Paget was there, camera in hand: interviewing locals in Vietnam and Cambodia, mingling with Contras in Nicaragua as civil war was being fought in El Salvador, ducking from gun fire in apartheid South Africa, or avoiding a riot in Berlin as the Wall was coming down. Winner of the Best Documentary at Slamdance Film Festival, this fascinating documentary from IFC Films features Paget's footage from his many travels and plays more like a James Bond film than the home-grown doc that it is.