War Made Easy
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
7.2
24 votes
August 23, 2007
1h 12m
Documentary
Overview
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.
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Where to watch
In United States
Free
Cast
Sean Penn
Narrator (Voice)
Norman Solomon
Self
Spiro Agnew
Self (archive footage)
Christiane Amanpour
Self (archive footage)
Wolf Blitzer
Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Phil Donahue
Self (archive footage)J
J. William Fulbright
Self (archive footage)
Sean Hannity
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
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