The Hurt Locker was certainly about the soldiers and what they go through and how they feel about their work.

0 Dark Thirty, is about a made up CIA Agent (according to the Producers she is "a composite"), adjusted to make the largest possible audience inclined to see the movie, including those who believe that torture is effective. Reportedly the movie shows torture as the only method used but the main character "has her doubts." The fact that John McCain got together with Democrats to kindly ask for a disclaimer saying that the official report said that torture did not lead to finding Bin Ladin is telling.