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Why we fight / Sony Pictures Classics presents a Charlotte Street Film in association with BBC Storyville/Arte/CBC ; produced by Eugene Jarecki, Susannah Shipman ; written and directed by Eugene Jarecki.
LIBRA DVD 017 726
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Military-industrial complex--United States--History--20th century.
- Economic conversion--United States--History--20th century.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Economic conversion.
- History.
- Military-industrial complex.
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--History, Military--20th century.
- History, Military.
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- War films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Anamorphic widescreen presentation.
- Place of Publication:
- Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue, with optional French, Spanish, or Portuguese subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
- Contents:
- Special features: Anamorphic widescreen
- Extra scenes
- Extended character featurettes
- Filmmaker TV appearances: The Daly Show with Jon Stewart ; Charlie Rose
- Audience Q&A with filmmaker
- Filmmaker commentary with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
- Theatrical trailer
- Language: English 5.1 Dolby digital
- Subtitles: French, Spanish, Portuguese.
- Participant:
- Interviews with Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, John S.D. Eisenhower, Dan Rather ; field correspondents, Mary Jane Robinson, May Ying Welsh.
- Credits:
- Executive producers, Roy Ackerman, Nick Fraser, Hans Robert Eisenhauer ; camera, Etienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh, Brett Wiley ; music, Robert Miller ; editor, Nancy Kennedy ; production manager, Nora Colie ; archive producer, Prudence Arndt ; researcher, Melinda Shopsin ; music supervisor, Susan Jacobs ; archival researchers, Alessandra Meyer, Nora Colie ; graphics/FX, Tony Lee, Digifreak UK ; music recorded and mixed by Joe Mendoza.
- Notes:
- 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
- Special features include: extra scenes; extended character featurettes; filmmaker TV appearances : The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Charlie Rose; audience Q&A with filmmaker; filmmaker audio commentary with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson; theatrical trailer.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
- Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize - Documentary (Eugene Jarecki), 2005.
- ISBN:
- 142480356X
- 9781424803569
- OCLC:
- 66903129
- Publisher Number:
- 043396138940
- 043396138964
- 13894 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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