War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
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Cast & Crew
Loretta Alper
Norman Solomon
Sean Penn
Peter Acker
Loretta Alper
Loretta Alper
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Synopsis
Endeavors to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Exhumes archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing how the news media have uncritically disseminated the messages of successive presidential administrations. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon's research and analysis, the film pays special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq.
Crew
Peter Acker
Loretta Alper
Loretta Alper
Jeremy Earp
Jeremy Earp
Sut Jhally
Andrew Killoy
Andrew Killoy
Andrew Killoy
Leigh Philips
David Rabinovitz
Norman Solomon
John Van Eps
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Released in United States 2007
Released in United States March 14, 2008
Released in United States Summer August 24, 2007
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (Documentaries of the World) August 23-September 3, 2007.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Nonfiction Features of 2007) September 27-October 12, 2007.
Based on the book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" by Norman Solomon; published by Wiley June 23, 2006.
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (Documentaries of the World) August 23-September 3, 2007.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Nonfiction Features of 2007) September 27-October 12, 2007.)
Released in United States March 14, 2008 (New York City)
Released in United States Summer August 24, 2007 (NY)
