Waterboarding

This is not a water sport but a method of interrogation which the US has denied is torture. It was developed for American troops as part of their training in resisting things they might be subjected to by enemy captors. Now they use it to extract "confessions" from "terrorists". Christopher Hitchens, a well known neocon journalist and proponent of the Iraq war, has undergone waterboarding and written about it. The facts are here, they lied.
What is extraordinary about the film is how rapidly and simply his resistance is broken.