Why We Fight (2005 film)

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Why We Fight
Why We Fight promotional poster
Directed byEugene Jarecki
Distributed bySony Pictures Classics
Release dates
January 20, 2006 (Limited)
Running time
98 mins.
LanguageEnglish

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 exactly 45 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address on January 17, 2005. It is slated for a limited theatrical release on January 20, 2006.

The documentary is named after the World War II-era U.S. commissioned propaganda newsreels titled "Why We Fight".

The film is a powerful polemic on the United State's 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. It includes interviews with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle and Joseph Cirincione. The film also incorporates the stories of a Vietnam veteran whose son died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and then had his son's name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq, and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the American military.

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