ReelCheese This stomach-churning expose puts an anguished face on the brutality exalted by Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq. With some of the most shocking, unrelenting footage ever released on DVD, it's enough to make even the staunchest anti-war critic rethink their position that alleviating human suffering was not a legitimate reason for military action. We see tongues cut out and cruel beatings designed to induce kidney failure. We see public shootings and chain-wielding prison guards. It's truly more frightening than any work of Stephen King or Dean Koontz.Yet the footage goes beyond Saddam's devastation. Uncensored footage of post-Saddam Iraqis gleefully stringing up the charred corpses of two American contractors is sickening. The new enemies in Iraq, the insurgents and terrorists, are also profiled with several hostage beheadings, again uncensored. It's all intended to shock, and in that it more than succeeds.Unquestionably the biggest drawback in BURIED IN THE SAND are the studio segments hosted by an unknown named Mark Taylor. Taylor tries hard to make the compilation tasteful, but his appearances cheapen the entire documentary. He turns the production into a piece of right-wing propaganda, which it needn't be. It would have been much better to employ an unseen narrator and perhaps interviews with experts to help us digest what we are seeing. By marketing this as an anti-liberal film, the producers ensured they would change nobody's mind about the war and instantly alienate half of a divided nation. That's too bad, because taken more seriously, BURIED IN THE SAND could have been more.

Arbiter89 Iraq was in a terrible way LONG before the American came. Saddam was the modern day Stalin and Hitler. Gasing people with different political and religious views and torturing his own people. In the film they show many actual evidence of these acts. They even go back with recored audio of John Kerry agreeing with the invasion of Iraq along with Senetor Clinton and Kennedy.I however like the comparison with the Saddam era Abu Gharib and the American Abu Gharaib. Neither are acceptable but Saddams was MUCH WORSE! We ALL need to see this. 10 out of 10. Two thumbs WAY UP!

Puckman751 I borrowed this movie from my grandparents and watched it one Saturday afternoon with my dad. We knew that it was going to be a little disturbing. It starts off mellow. People are beaten until their kidney's fail, there fingers are cut off and they are released to do whatever the hell they want. Feet are also cut off and tongues are clipped. As Jigsaw once promised us "Yes. There will be blood".After these clips the host, Mark Taylor, comes on screen for his second appearance. He does get annoying during most of the film, saying things you already know. More then anything he will tell you the scenes are violent, brutal and disturbing yatta yatta yatta.They show more scenes like this, they also show more torture like techniques by Saddam's sons and they show prison footage of how the guards beat the inmates. Even at this point there is nothing to be queasy about. Then comes what are the most gut wrenching scenes I have ever seen. Live beading's of an American contractor and Japanese workers who are just trying to reform Iraq in the smallest ways. A group of armed me with bags over their faces make the people plead for their life before they chant things that are inaudible and sever the head off these people. In all, people who ca not handle CSI or House or any of those shows with blood should not watch this movie. It is still a good insight into what is actually going on that the news doesn't tell you about.

Ove Melaa I got this movie in the mail a few days ago. I watched it in black and white cause the colour would not appear on my DVD player. Anyway, i saw the whole movie and i was not very pleased about it. The host Mark Taylor a large man in dress suit which tell about what you will see next and say TO MANY times: What you are about to see next is shocking!. Yes, a few things are shocking like the scenes where iraq soldiers breaks bones on prisoners. They also cut tongues of people. At one stage in movie Mark Taylor ask us make up our minds on this: What is worst the Abu Ghraib prison case or what the Iraq army does to people. We are then shown a series of non brutal images from the Abu Ghraib prison followed by extreme grotesque videos from Iraq. This is wrong.The movie it self is very good produced. Good image quality and some neat extra features. But i find this movie to politically incorrect. I have much movies in this genre (shockumentary) but i tend to like them best when they stay without any political views.