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"Why We Fight" is an unflinching look at 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 complex"), the film surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century's 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 -- why does America fight? What are the forces -- political, economic and ideological -- that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?

Production
Arte [fr]; BBC Storyville [gb]; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) [ca]; Charlotte Street Films; TV2 Danmark [dk](in co-production with);

Cast Names
Ken Adelman; John Ashcroft; Osama Bin Laden; George Bush; George W. Bush; Robert Byrd; Frank Capra; Dick Cheney; Joseph Cirincione; Bill Clinton; Gwynne Dyer; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John S.D. Eisenhower; Dennis Hastert; Saddam Hussein; Chalmers Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; John F. Kennedy; Ayatollah Khomeini; William Kristol; Charles Lewis; John McCain; Richard Nixon; Bill O'Reilly; Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi; Richard Perle; Colin Powell; Dan Rather; Ronald Reagan; James G. Roche;

Box Office
USD 1,436,279

Release Date
2005-01-01 * (Sundance Film Festival)
2006-01-20 (limited)

Genres
Documentary; History; War;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated PG-13 for disturbing war images and brief language.

Running Time
0 hr. 55 min.
1 hr. 38 min.
1 hr. 39 min.

Director
Eugene Jarecki

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