India, Nov. 22 -- Ramesh Sharma's 1986 feature film, New Delhi Times, won four national awards, including the director's award for the best debut film. Since then, however, Sharma has preferred making documentaries.

The 71-year-old filmmaker's latest, Chronicles of the Forgotten Genocide: The Kissinger Doctrine, is a disturbing expose of the role played by the world's two most powerful men-the then US President Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger-in the 1971 genocide of Bengalis in what was then East Pakistan.

The 100-minute-long documentary, to be screened by documentary group Vikalp at Prithvi Theatre on November 24, relies on original audio tapes, telegrams and documents to show how US foreign policy helped in the killing o...