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Don't miss "The Act of Killing", a documentary mentioned in the article. It's both brilliantly creative and horribly chilling. Certainly you've never seen anything like it.

In the mid-1960s 500,000 to a million Indonesians were massacred when Suharto seized power (reputedly with U.S. acquiescence or support). The directors of the documentary persuaded some leaders of the massacre not only to proudly discuss their acts on camera, but to stage and re-enact them, sometimes in interpretive fashion (musicals, surreal sets, etc.), thinking they were the protagonists of a film.

If you want to know more about this movie, check out this Sam Harris podcast with the maker, Joshua Oppenheimer: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-gaze