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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

  • 20072007
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  • 1h 13m
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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
  • Documentary
  • History
  • War
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vie... Read allWar Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archiv... Read allWar Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing i... Read all
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  • Directors
    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
  • Writers
    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
    • Norman Solomon(based on the book by)
  • Stars
    • Spiro Agnew(archive footage)
    • Christiane Amanpour(archive footage)
    • Peter Arnett(archive footage)
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  • Directors
    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
  • Writers
    • Loretta Alper
    • Jeremy Earp
    • Norman Solomon(based on the book by)
  • Stars
    • Spiro Agnew(archive footage)
    • Christiane Amanpour(archive footage)
    • Peter Arnett(archive footage)
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    • 16User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
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    Peter Arnett
    • Selfas Self
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    Wolf Blitzer
    Wolf Blitzer
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    George Bush
    George Bush
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    George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
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    Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney
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    Bill Clinton
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    Walter Cronkite
    Walter Cronkite
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    Phil Donahue
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    J. William Fulbright
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    Sean Hannity
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Henry Kissinger
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    Morton Kondracke
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    Charles Krauthammer
    Charles Krauthammer
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Barbara Lee
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Loretta Alper
      • Jeremy Earp
    • Writers
      • Loretta Alper
      • Jeremy Earp
      • Norman Solomon(based on the book by)
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    I Found Out That I Didn't Know What I Thought I Knew.
    I am a very critical thinker and have prided myself on not being taken in the propaganda of our business (greed) interested media. After seeing this movie at an University of Oregon symposium I am shaking my head at how easy it is to manipulate the mass population, whether it is by the right or the left, and whether they are on guard. I never connected the dots before on how easy it is to sell war and just how gullible we all are.

    This movie should be shown in every critical thinking class at both the high school and college level. It is a wake up call for all of us to protect ourselves from the subtle, effective media propaganda that influences us in just about all our decisions.

    Although this movies is critical of our current president and his politics, it doesn't treat kindly those who preceded him in the office of the presidency. The way things stand today the choice between Democrat or Republican is simply what ever we have been told it is and doesn't equate to the reality of politics where money rules.

    I probably have talked to most of my friends about this movie more than any other movie this year. I can guarantee you more than one epipthany.
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      • May 14, 2007 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
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      • War Made Easy
    • Production company
      • Media Education Foundation
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      • $100,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 13 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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