School of Assassins

1/1/2026

Using some archive footage of atrocities committed in Latin America in the 1980s and early 90s, this short documentary questions the work of the US Army’s “School of the Americas” in Georgia. Ostensibly, it offers a training facility to soldiers from the likes of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua to enable them to return home replete with not just the skills of a modern day soldier, but with a sense of the values of their host nation. What’s fairly clear from the commentary, though, is that many of these people are guilty of committing acts of assassination and murder ranging from an archbishop to some 3-month old babies. With Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II leading congressional efforts to close the school, it focuses on driving the audience to implore, or even instruct, their representative