War Made Easy (2007)
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
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.
- Date of release
- 2007-08-23
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp
Casting
- 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. William Fulbright — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a 2007 American anti-war documentary film written and directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, based on the book of the same name by Norman Solomon. The film is produced by Alper and narrated by Sean Penn. It premiered in New York City on May 14, 2007, before a limited release on August 24, 2007.
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