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Why We Fight(Movie, 2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Genres: Documentary, History
Why We FightRating: 3.8/5 (with 5252 votes)
'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. 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 and a Peabody Award in 2006. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Why We Fight

Grand Jury Prize Documentary

About Why We Fight

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

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Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), German (DE), English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Hebrew (HE), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/01/2005
Cast: Joseph Cirincione, Richard Perle, Chalmers Johnson, John McCain, Joseph Stalin, Condoleezza Rice, Ruhollah Khomeini, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Frank Capra, Bill Clinton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Harry S. Truman, Saddam Hussein, Colin Powell, Dan Rather, Paul Wolfowitz
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Screenwriter: Eugene Jarecki
Director of Photography: Étienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh, Brett Wiley

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