Martin Fowler

One of the United State’s longest conflicts has been with Iran, where there’s been a deep hostility since the revolution of 1979. What is often forgotten is the roots of that conflict go back to American actions, when in 1953 they drove a coup d’état to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The documentary Coup 53 is a absorbing account of that coup, and also a meta-textual documentary about the making of the film itself.

It’s meta-textual element comes a mystery that came up during the research for the documentary, a reference to an old interview with a British intelligence agent that promised to shed a whole new light on the coup. This mystery, and the journey to find the interview, helps drive the documentary, adding an interesting spice to what otherwise would be a straightforward historic narrative.

Not that the story of the coup needs any spicing

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