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- Format: DVD
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 043396138940
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107062709
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: June 27, 2006
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #2702 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #81 in General Interest (See Top 100 General Interest Bestsellers)
- #17 in Media Arts (See Top 100 Media Arts Bestsellers)
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Review
Rolling Stone, 02/09/2006, p.73, 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Jarecki sets archival war footage from the past half-century against the political maneuvering behind the scenes. The impact is shattering." Widescreen Review, 07/01/2006, p.71, "This is a very interesting and thought-provoking soundtrack." Rolling Stone, 07/13/2006, p.110, 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n important documentary....This is a damning indictment of the American war machine." Entertainment Weekly, 06/30/2006, p.145, "Jarecki takes a holistic approach to examining [our culture]..." -- Grade: A- Uncut, 05/01/2008, 128, 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] superb reflection on the militarization of the culture and economy of the United States....[A] poised, intelligent documentary..." Entertainment Weekly, 01/27/2006, p.65-66, "[P]assionate and sobering....We're left with a vision of America grown accustomed, if not addictively numb, to the deadening spirit of war." -- Grade: A- Movieline's Hollywood Life, 01/01/2006, p.101, "[The] film takes a piercing, panoramic look at the growth of the 'military-industrial complex'..." New York Times, 02/03/2006, p.E10, "It's a story Mr. Jarecki tells with appreciable energy, using images culled from newsreels, educational and military films, and original material."
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Theatrical Release: January 20, 2006
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Released as the American military continues to make its presence felt in Iraq and across the globe, Eugene Jarecki's (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) WHY WE FIGHT asks some pertinent questions about the economic necessities of war. Speaking to a number of key figures including Republican Senator John McCain and author Gore Vidal, as well as lesser-know names such as Wilton Sekzer--a Vietnam veteran and ex-New York City cop who lost his son in the World Trade Center attacks--Jarecki's film is a bipartisan treatise that was inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address to the nation. Eisenhower spoke of a burgeoning American military-industrial complex, which he believed would threaten democracy across the globe. Jarecki takes a look at whether this has occurred by questioning his subjects on the links between big business and the military, while also talking to people whose lives are inexorably tied to the business of war. Fascinating revelations unfold, from Sekzer's attempt to pay tribute to his son to the thoughts of the fighter pilot who dropped the first bomb on Iraq at the dawn of the second Gulf War. Each of them gives their own unique take on the American military machine, while Jarecki intersperses their discussions with rapid-fire scenes of the machine as it lumbers into action.
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