Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer estimates the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965 and 1966 took the lives of between 500,000 and 2.5 million people. In his two films, the most frightening documentaries I've ever seen, he confronts the men who carried out these mass killings. I wasn't expecting they would, in turn, confront us:
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