The largest and most expensive trial in U.S. Marine Corps history began as the result of an event in November 2005, wherein an IED blast hit a patrol in the western Iraq town of Haditha, killing one Marine. The initial story from the military was that the bomb had also killed 15 civilians. But the people brought into nearby hospitals didn’t have bomb blast injuries, but gunshot wounds. The gap between the official story and the massacre that happened, and the protracted attempt to bring the two together, is told in Michael Epstein’s studious and frustrating documentary, “House Two,” having its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

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