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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.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Military-industrial complex--United States--History--20th century.
- Military-industrial complex.
- Economic conversion--United States--History--20th century.
- Economic conversion.
- United States--History, Military--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--History, Military--2001-2009.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Sony Pictures Classics, 2006.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a 'who's who' of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire. Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase 'military industrial complex'), filmmaker Jarecki (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century's military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic, ideological – that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy? 'Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called WHY WE FIGHT that explored America's reasons for entering the war,' Jarecki notes. 'Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?''
- Participant:
- Interviews with Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, John S.D. Eisenhower, Dan Rather ; field correspondents, Mary Jane Robinson, May Ying Welsh.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2016).
- OCLC:
- 971309972
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