Sunday, February 4, 2007

Why We Fight

Why We Fight is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary was first released on January 17, 2005, exactly 44 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address. The documentary is named after the World War II-era propaganda newsreels titled "Why We Fight," which had been commissioned by the United States. The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the United States of the last fifty years and in particular on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Why We Fight