American officials said the tapes of Mr. bin al-Shibh do not depict harsh interrogation techniques.
Far more often they depict harsh environments with erupting volcanoes, tempests and battles between predators and their prey.
Mr. Durham, a veteran criminal prosecutor from Connecticut, was said to have been selected largely because of his careful and largely leak-free investigation into the C.I.A.'s 2005 destruction of videotapes depicting harsh interrogations of two detainees who were members of Al Qaeda.
The film, in common with the original James Leo Herlihy novel, depicted a harsh urban landscape, filled with a far different madding crowd.
In June of last year, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith depicted the harsh realities of child trafficking in the music video, "Nada," produced with fellow actress Salma Hayek.
Stirred into action by the 1930 Ohio penitentiary fire, which resulted in 300 deaths when guards refused to let inmates out of their cells, Hollywood produced movies which depicted the harsh conditions in prisons at the time.
With poised and attentive black-and-white images and a soundtrack that's loud with insects and rushing water, Guerra depicts the harsh environment and the shaman's profound understanding of it.
Though Mr. Watanabe called his show "Lovely Army" and played the theme song from "The Bridge on the River Kwai," a movie depicting the harsh treatment of British soldiers in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, he insisted in a telephone interview from his office in Tokyo that he was not making an antiwar statement.
The prolific and immensely talented Erdrich, author of 14 novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and winner of the 2012 National book award for her novel The Round House, depicts a harsh marriage fracturing amid the claustrophobic archetypes of muse and master, embodied by Irene and Gil.
The visual style is often dark, saturated, and raw, depicting the harsh Midwestern United States in a "withdrawn", dark and understated light to give a "surreal" effect.
The road has become a popular place for the automotive industry to film advertisements; more than ten manufacturers have made television commercials along the route, often depicting the harsh weather.
