Why We Fight
(film)
Why We Fight (2005) is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki about the United States's relationship with war. Its title is an allusion to the World War II-era newsreels of the same name, which were commissioned by the United States to justify their decision to go to war against the Nazis.
Why We Fight was first screened at the 2005 Sundance
Film Festival on January 17, 2005, exactly 44 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's
farewell address. It won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. It received a limited
theatrical release on January 20, 2005, and was released on DVD to the home video
market on June 27, 2005 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, with a MPAA rating
of PG-13.
Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States
military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United
States during the last fifty years, and in particular in the 2003 Invasion of
Iraq. The film alleges that in every decade since World War II, the American public
has been told a lie to bring it into war to fuel the military-economic machine,
which in turn maintains American dominance in the world. It includes interviews
with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Gore Vidal
and Joseph Cirincione. The film also incorporates the stories of a Vietnam War
veteran whose son died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and then had his son's
name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq; a 23-year old New York man who enlists
in the United States Army citing his financial troubles after his only family
member died; and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the
American military.
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