It sounds like a good and intriguing movie, and I want to see it. The news coverage of the coup was appallingly bad, IMHO. There is a backlash/reaction to the movie, however -- it may not be as cant-free as advertised. This analysis (confession: I've only just skimmed it) was linked to in Roger Ebert's "Movie Answer Man" column the other day.

Oops, I fuX0red the first link. It should point here.

Oooh, that first link is interesting. Some of the contentions are pretty spurious. Still, though, I believe a lot of what they're saying.

Most documentaries have an axe to grind, it seems. This movie is worth checking out, even if it's clearly biased, simply because it's amazing that an event of such enormity was virtually ignored by the US press.

Oh yeah -- it's impossible to be completely "objective", and docs that try to be so are often boring as all-get-out.

I have a theory that the US media--or at least TV and the major news sites--have room for exactly one war/disaster/famine etc. in the third world. So if your country happened to schedule its coup attempt against, oh say, the US/Taliban war, well, tough luck. There'll be more people watching the shitty sitcom reruns scheduled opposite the Super Bowl.

It's not codified into policy, but the way it plays out, your scenario actually isn't too far off...