‘The Corridors Of Power’ Lets Audiences Ask Themselves How They Might Have Acted On Global Atrocities DeadlineContenders
takes a bracing look at the factors that kept America — the sole remaining superpower in the immediate post-Cold War era — from intervening in global instances involving genocide, war crimes and other large-scale atrocities.
“The idea of the movie started, basically, when I saw the horrible picture that came out from Syria, especially after the chemical attack [in 2013], especially after the Syrian regime has crossed Obama’s red line,” Moreh revealed during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season panel, noting that President Barack Obama had indicated that the U.S. would commit to opposing the Assad regime.
Moreh said he secured his chat with those in the room where it happened “with a lot of patience and determination. And they wanted to speak: the first interview that was conducted with Madeleine Albright, the late former Secretary of State in November 2014; the last interview was conducted with Samantha Power in February 2020, just before Covid. So it was a process of six years to get them to speak all of them.
But Moreh did ultimately make a conscious choice not to speak to any of America’s more recent presidents.
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