Why We Fight...
Why We Fight
1 hr 38 min 41 sec - Oct 10, 2007
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Why We Fight, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it 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-congressional complex"), filmmaker Jarecki (The Trials Of Henry Kissinger) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-centurys 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 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 its 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?"
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Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted and terrified by Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will, and worked in direct response to it.
The series faced a tough challenge: convincing an isolationist nation of the need to become involved in the war and ally with the Soviets, among other things.
In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis Power's propaganda footage – recontextualizing it so it promoted the cause of the Allies instead.
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