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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Eugene Jarecki (written by)
Genre:
Documentary | History | War more
Tagline:
It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.
Plot:
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
Strawdog Theater Announces Why We Fight Themed 22nd Anniversary Season
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 4 August 2009, 5:58 PM, PDT)
Salute Your Shorts: Why We Fight
(From PasteMagazine. 2 July 2009, 1:45 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
More successful than Fahrenheit 911 more (95 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Ken Adelman | ... | Himself | |
| John Ashcroft | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Osama Bin Laden | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| George Bush | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| George W. Bush | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Robert Byrd | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Frank Capra | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Dick Cheney | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Joseph Cirincione | ... | Himself | |
| Bill Clinton | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Anh Duong | ... | Herself | |
| Gwynne Dyer | ... | Himself | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| John S.D. Eisenhower | ... | Himself | |
| Susan Eisenhower | ... | Herself | |
| Donna Ellington | ... | Herself | |
| Dennis Hastert | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Saddam Hussein | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Chalmers Johnson | ... | Himself | |
| Lyndon Johnson | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| John F. Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| William Kristol | ... | Himself | |
| Karen Kwiatkowski | ... | Herself | |
| Charles Lewis | ... | Himself | |
| John McCain | ... | Himself | |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Bill O'Reilly | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Richard Perle | ... | Himself | |
| Colin Powell | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Dan Rather | ... | Himself | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| James G. Roche | ... | Himself | |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Tim Russert | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Wally Saeger | ... | Himself | |
| Wilton Sekzer | ... | Himself | |
| Naj Sheesan | ... | Himself | |
| William Solomon | ... | Himself | |
| Franklin Spinney | ... | Himself | |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Richard Treadway | ... | Himself (as Col. Rich Treadway) | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Michael Valentine | ... | Himself | |
| Gore Vidal | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Wolfowitz | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Le Nerf de la guerre (France) (TV title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for disturbing war images and brief language.
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Runtime:
Norway:55 min | USA:98 min | Argentina:99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff
Quotes:
Karen Kwiatkowski: I have two sons and I will allow none of my children to serve in the United States Military. If you join the military now you are not defending the United States of America, you are helping certain policy makers pursue an imperial agenda. more
Movie Connections:
References The Nazis Strike (1943) more
Soundtrack:
I Fought In A War more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Why We Fight (2005)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Is 'Why We Fight' just a waste? | web-278 |
| This movie makes me angry | danalangdon |
| The 'Surge' is working | alan-zibluk |
| Disappointing | sdg233 |
| Propaganda? | castlem |
| COUNTER PROPAGANDA | s_trangedays |
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This is truly a remarkable film. In its subtlety, and its poetry it outshines "..9/11". While Moore's film remains an extraordinary piece of work - the criticisms could be spun by the right as a 'liberal rant' - largely due to Moore's obvious, and justified frustration.
Why we Fight presents a lyrical and devastatingly haunting portrait of a system that has failed the west - specifically America - time and time again in a repeating cycle. The narrative carefully builds an historical context for the present administration's actions, and unfolds a story of how Americans, even the most staunch supporters of Bush's policies, have gradually learnt that they've been lied to, lied about and then lied to again as the administration is called on to answer for their lies.
With extraordinary research, and some incredible interview contributors, the facts are again repeated - indeed, they gain, perhaps even greater impact because of the historical context - and the warnings of past leaders.
It is above all a film which at once makes you terribly sad - and frustrated. But the surprise - for me at least - was that my anger became levelled not so much at the arrogance of our governments, and those in the positions of power - but at the stupefying inaction of the voting public.
I need only direct you to another of the 'reviews' of this film to underline just how poisoned the populous is, and just how stupid people have allowed themselves to become.
-------- The director spoke at Sundance about how he consciously prevented this breathtaking documentary from being screened before the election in 04 - largely because he felt the message of the film is not partisan, and not about a particular administration - but it is about the system. My only frustration about this is that I can only imagine what the snowballing effects of this film might have been had it been allowed to swiftly follow 'Fahrenheit 911'.