

To Kill a War Machine
2025-06-28 · 78 min · ★ 9.0
Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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- Hannan Majid, Richard York
- Production companies
- Rainbow Collective
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- United Kingdom
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- Released
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