Fresh
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
War Made Easy
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
2007 · 1h 12m · Not Rated 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.
Director and cast
- Sean Penn as Self - Narrator (Voice)
- Norman Solomon as Self
- Spiro Agnew as Self (archive footage)
- Christiane Amanpour as Self (archive footage)
- Wolf Blitzer as Self (archive footage)
- George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- Dick Cheney as Self (archive footage)
- Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)
- Walter Cronkite Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Conventional and one-sided.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a depressing look at political manipulation and news media compliance.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
The doc is sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but to the participants' credit, it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Fresh
Makes a strong case that when it comes to military action, the American public has been deceived by presidents from Lyndon Johnson on down the line to the current occupant of the White House.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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