War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

"How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"

May 14 2007 Not Rated 1h 13m
Documentary, History, War

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole 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. revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

Plot

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole 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. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

Written by

Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, Norman Solomon

Directed by

Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp

Cast

Spiro Agnew, Christiane Amanpour, Peter Arnett

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
War Made Easy - TRAILER
Scores
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Average Rating
7.9 out of 10
Metascore
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