Think you've had the holiday from Hell? Wait till you see what happened to a trio of West Midlanders in Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' compelling docu-drama about the Tipton Three and how they ended up being branded terrorists by the American Government. Told specifically from the point of view of the three who survived the ordeal, this is a damning indictment of both Guantánamo Bay and the US government's insistence on detaining prisoners there without trial.

Mixing filmed interviews with the actual Tipton Three - Shafiq Rasul, Ruhel Ahmed, and Asif Iqbal - with recreations of their experiences using unknown actors, The Road To Guantánamo is not easy viewing (and we're not just talking about the trio's stomach ailments as they initially travel through Pakistan and Afghanistan). After being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, their subsequent brutal treatment at the hands of the US Army and Marines is mercilessly chronicled, from their internment in Afghanistan to eventual imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay itself (kitted out in those now-iconic orange boiler suits, of course).

"BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION"

Winterbottom and Whitecross also use actual news reports, successfully blurring the line between fact and fiction still further. After the protagonists' troubles start, the story becomes more repetitive and less clear, which is probably why a narrator is suddenly introduced towards the end of proceedings. Still, if you accept the fact that Guantánamo isn't a film seeking to address wider political issues, this is one Road movie you really should see.