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Director’s Note

To Kill A War Machine was created as a documentary record of a contested moment in recent history — to observe and document, not to instruct audiences what to think.

Following legal developments that led to the film’s withdrawal, a unanimous High Court ruling found the underlying proscription unlawful and disproportionate. In light of that decision, we believe the film should once again be accessible so viewers can watch and reach their own conclusions.

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To Kill a War Machine:

Smash it up. Shut it down.

The documentary the British government unlawfully banned!

Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to physically 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. Independent film makers Rainbow Collective and poet Shareefa Energy have combined this cache of footage with narration by the group’s founders, Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard to follow the explosive growth of one of the world’s most effective and confrontational protest groups, and the backlash activists face as they incur the wrath of the British state and the arms companies operating on their soil.

The film charts Palestine Action’s growth over 5 years, from a group of 3 friends breaking into Elbit Systems’ London offices with stencils and spray cans, through their escalation of actions as they begin to target the banks, insurers, logistics companies and insurers backing the arms companies, up to the present day, where PA’s alleged destruction of over £1 million of Israeli drones and the loss of billions of pounds in government contracts have resulted in the imprisonment of dozens of activists.

Featuring interviews with key players and an incredible soundtrack of underground beats from the heart of the movement, ’To Kill a War Machine’ is a unique, dramatic and deeply moving documentary which presents a compelling case for the effectiveness of

direct action as the last resort against a genocide backed and armed by our government in the UK.