| Why We Fight | |
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| Directed by | Eugene Jarecki |
| Written by | Eugene Jarecki |
| Produced by | Susannah Shipman |
| Starring | Joseph Cirincione Richard Perle Chalmers Johnson John McCain |
| Cinematography | Etienne Sauret May Ying Welsh |
| Edited by | Nancy Kennedy |
| Music by | Robert Miller |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics (US) Axiom Films (UK & Ireland) |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Countries | Canada France United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.4 million |
'Why We Fight' is a 2005 documentary film by Eugene Jarecki about the military–industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda films commissioned by the U.S. Government to justify their decision to enter the war against the Axis Powers.[1]
Why We Fight was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2005, exactly forty-four years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address. Although it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, the film received a limited public cinema release on January 22, 2006. It also won one of the 2006 Grimme Awards in the competition "Information & Culture"; the prize is one of Germany's most prestigious for television productions[2] and a Peabody Award in 2006.[3]
- ^ Why We Fight at IMDb
- ^ "Grimme-Preis%20&". DE: Grimme Institut. 2006. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ^ 66th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2007.