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2006
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Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, WHY WE FIGHT offers a revealing look at how America has readied itself for battle, and what compels us to so frequently wage war around the world. Produced in the midst of the second Iraq War, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's WHY WE FIGHT is an unflinching examination of the forces fueling the American military machine for over half a century and their global consequences. The film opens with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell speech, in which he warned Americans of the growing power of the "military industrial complex." Expanding upon Eisenhower's warning, Jarecki relies on interviews with American soldiers, government officials, military insiders, defense industry personnel, congressman, scholars, ordinary Iraqis, and many others to provide personal, political and economic analysis of the last 50 years of U.S. military expansion, wars and interventions. What emerges is an eye-opening and often chilling portrait of how political, corporate, and military interests have become progressively entangled through the business of war.
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© 2006 Charlotte Street Films, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Reviewed by: sesciortino on 11/10/2006 7:40:57 PM
Hmmm . . . See below.The man watched the film and still thinks "military industrial complex" refers to some hippie conspiracy theory from the 70's instead of being a phrase coined by Dwight Eisenhower to desribe a real state of affairs.Hope you pay more attention, viewer.
Reviewed by: sesciortino on 11/10/2006 7:40:57 PM
Hmmm . . . See below.The man watched the film and still thinks "military industrial complex" refers to some hippie conspiracy theory from the 70's instead of being a phrase coined by Dwight Eisenhower to desribe a real state of affairs.Hope you pay more attention, viewer.
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Reviewed by: sesciortino on 11/10/2006 7:40:57 PM
Hmmm . . . See below.The man watched the film and still thinks "military industrial complex" refers to some hippie conspiracy theory from the 70's instead of being a phrase coined by Dwight Eisenhower to desribe a real state of affairs.Hope you pay more attention, viewer.
(Read More Customer Reviews...)Reviewed by: jayesin on 10/21/2006 10:21:19 PM
It's use of indisputable/factual evidence... and lack of open-ended conspiracy theories w/sneering narration (a la Michael Moore), makes this the most compelling anti-war documentary i've seen to date. It's a shame that Moore's films have received so much publicity while a gem like this one has flown under the radar. This Doc was very well done.
Reviewed by: zazen2004 on 9/16/2006 12:06:15 AM
The truth is not always pretty, nor flattering, nor is it even what we want to hear but it is factual and it is there for those who are not afraid to see it.The message in "Why We Fight" is that too many Americans refuse to see that truth and even fewer are willing to do anything about it.This truth is that we have indeed become addicted to the power of war and insensitive to its consequences.Watch this film and see it for yourself. Are we the new Roman Empire....
Reviewed by: markdaniel14 on 9/14/2006 6:38:21 PM
This is such bull that it makes Moore's Farenheit 9/11 look truthfull.This rehashes the old "military industrial complex" conspiracy theories from the 70's.It is made by the Blame America Crowd and also the America Sucks Crowd.I think old drugged out hippies will really enjoy this one.Only if they are high, though.
Reviewed by: drtrmiller on 9/8/2006 10:03:24 AM
Compelling docu-drama. Sony did an excellent job producing this!
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