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Why we fight
Title
Why we fight [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics presents a Charlotte Street Film ; produced for BBC Storyville in association with Arte and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; produced by Eugene Jarecki, Susannah Shipman; written and directed by Eugene Jarecki.
ISBN
142480356X
Published
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released in 2005.
Documentary.
Special features: Extra scenes; extended character featurettes; filmmaker TV appearances : The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Charlie Rose; audience Q&A with filmmaker; filmmaker audio commentary with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson; theatrical trailer.
Camera, Etienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh, Brett Wiley ; music, Robert Miller ; editor, Nancy Kennedy ; field correspondents, Mary Jane Robinson, May Ying Welsh.
English dialogue with optional French, Spanish or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned.
Sundance Film Festival, 2005: Grand Jury Prize - Documentary (Eugene Jarecki).
Summary
Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
Variant and related titles
Storyville (Television program)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2006
Credits
Camera, Etienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh, Brett Wiley ; music, Robert Miller ; editor, Nancy Kennedy ; field correspondents, Mary Jane Robinson, May Ying Welsh.
Performers
Interviews with Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, John S.D. Eisenhower, Dan Rather.
System details note
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for disturbing war images and brief language.
Videorecording number
13894 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Subjects
Also listed under
Charlotte Street Films.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Association relative à la télévision européenne.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
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