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'Why We Fight' is a 2005 documentary film by Eugene Jarecki about the military–industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda films commissioned by the U.S. Government to justify their decision to enter the war against the Axis Powers.[1]

Why We Fight
Theatrical poster
Directed byEugene Jarecki
Written byEugene Jarecki
Produced bySusannah Shipman
StarringJoseph Cirincione
Richard Perle
Chalmers Johnson
John McCain
CinematographyEtienne Sauret
May Ying Welsh
Edited byNancy Kennedy
Music byRobert Miller
Production
companies
ARTE
BBC Storyville
CBC
Charlotte Street Pictures
TV2 Danmark
Distributed bySony Pictures Classics (US)
Axiom Films (UK & Ireland)
Release dates
  • January 2005 (2005-01) (Sundance)
  • January 22, 2006 (2006-01-22) (United States)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesCanada
France
United Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.4 million

Why We Fight was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2005, exactly forty-four years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address. Although it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, the film received a limited public cinema release on January 22, 2006. It also won one of the 2006 Grimme Awards in the competition "Information & Culture"; the prize is one of Germany's most prestigious for television productions[2] and a Peabody Award in 2006.[3]


Synopsis


Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter are politician John McCain, political scientist and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

Why We Fight documents the consequences of said foreign policy with the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who then asked the military to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be dropped in Iraq; a 23-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he was poor and in debt, his decision impelled by his mother's death; and a military explosives scientist (Anh Duong) who arrived in the U.S. as a refugee child from Vietnam in 1975.


Producer's list


The producer's list included "more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Kingdom's BBC, Estonia's ETV and numerous European broadcasters" but no U.S. names.[4] The Sundance Institute did, however, provide completion funding.[4] Writer and director Jarecki said "serious examination of Eisenhower and the aftermath of his speech proved 'too radical' for potential American funders for his film" and except for Sundance, he "could not raise a dollar in the U.S."[4]


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References


  1. Why We Fight at IMDb
  2. "Grimme-Preis%20&". DE: Grimme Institut. 2006. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  3. 66th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2007.
  4. Jensen, Elizabeth (June 4, 2007), "Why We Fight", Television Week, vol. 26, no. 23.
  5. "Operation Hardwood V Begins in Kuwait" (images). Dvids hub. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  6. Wilkerson, Lawrence (February 3, 2006). "Interview transcript of the PBS program NOW about pre-war intelligence". Public Affairs Television. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2007.


Awards
Preceded by
DiG!
Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary
2005
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Peabody Award
2006
Succeeded by



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