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'Battle for Haditha'

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Nick Broomfield, the loose-cannon British documentarian, has never shied away from inflammatory subjects ("Biggie and Tupac," "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer"), and for this fictionalized feature he's chosen a doozy: the U.S. Marines accused of murdering 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005.

In that still-pending case, witnesses said the Marines methodically gunned...

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