In Director Gavin Hood's excellent thriller, Eye in the Sky, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flies over Kenya, where a secret meeting is taking place between members of al-Shabaab. The drone pilot (Aaron Paul) sits comfortably at a computer terminal, monitoring their actions from thousands of miles away at a Nevada air base. On the ground in Nairobi, a resourceful agent (Barkhad Abdi from Captain Phillips) uses smaller devices --disguised as birds or insects-- to obtain better camera angles. The footage travels around the world to a U.S. base in Hawaii, where a facial recognition expert confirms the identities of the meeting participants, and to England, where a British colonel (Helen Mirren) orders Kenyan forces to move in and capture the targets.
