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The most striking footage was uncovered by kids rooting around the school's wreckage following the Sept. 3 military siege. A parent was videotaping his child's first day of school, but the camera was confiscated and the father was murdered. The terrorists then recorded their own actions, such as the installation of the bombs and Aushev's negotiations; the camera even peers into a courtyard at a pileup of freshly killed corpses-one of them probably being the dead dad. More horrific stories follow about how the terrorists ignored the hostages' requests for food, water and bathroom privileges (some drank their own urine to survive), with [Joe Halderman] making the subtle point that perhaps government action could have altered the significant body count: 331 hostages dead, 176 of them children. As video clips show Soviet President Vladimir Putin's visit of injured children at a hospital (he didn't bother going to the Beslan school), narrator Julia Roberts dryly notes that Putin's stopover was so short "the plane's engines were still warm."
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Three Days in September
Three Days in September. (Showtime/ CBS; 81 minutes; unrated; 2006). Documentaries don't get much more compelling than this bleak beauty, a detailed study of the...
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