Day Zero
(First Look, Jan. 18)
Documentary filmmaker Bryan Gunnar Cole directs this drama that imagines what would happen to a small group of friends when faced with the reinstitution of the military draft. Given 30 days to report for duty, they face their own fears and are forced to define their own sense of honor and courage. Starring Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Ally Sheedy.

Taxi to the Dark Side
(THINKFilm, Jan. 18)
From a military-themed work of fiction by a former documentary filmmaker to a military-themed documentary by a current documentary filmmaker — director Alex Gibney turns his lens on the torture practices being engaged in by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay, as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Taxi to the Dark Side. Even the poster for this film (showing two U.S. soldiers leading away a man in a black hood, their shadows forming an American flag) has stirred controversy, and the film will likely do the same.