The Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantanamo (2006) is a British docudrama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom. It follows three young British Muslims from Tipton who traveled to Pakistan for a wedding in 2001, crossed into Afghanistan as US bombing began, and ended up in American military custody — not as fighters, but as people who were in the wrong place at a catastrophic moment.

Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul spent two years in Guantanamo Bay without charge, without trial, and without a lawyer. The film cuts between dramatized scenes and real on-camera interviews with the men themselves, who describe interrogations, solitary confinement, and a release that came with no explanation and no apology. Whitecross and Winterbottom don't editorialize — the facts are damning enough on their own. An unsettling look at what due process meant in the years after September 2001. Watch The Road to Guantanamo (2006) online on iFILM.