War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
73 min
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.
- Release date
- August 23, 2007
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Leigh Phillips, John Van Eps
Where to watch
Free
Kanopy
Trailer
Cast
- Sean Penn as Narrator (Voice)
- 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 as Self (archive footage)
- Phil Donahue as Self (archive footage)
- Sean Hannity as Self (archive footage)
- Lyndon B. Johnson as Self (archive footage)
- Henry Kissinger as Self (archive footage)
- Barbara Lee as Self (archive footage)
- Jim Lehrer as Self (archive footage)
- Rush Limbaugh as Self (archive footage)
- Douglas MacArthur as Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Spiro Agnew · Archive footage
- Christiane Amanpour · Archive footage
- Peter Arnett · Archive footage
- Wolf Blitzer · Archive footage
- George H.W. Bush · Archive footage
- George W. Bush · Archive footage
- Dick Cheney · Archive footage
- Bill Clinton · Archive footage
- Walter Cronkite · Archive footage
- Phil Donahue · Archive footage
- Loretta Alper · Director
- Jeremy Earp · Director
- Loretta Alper · Writer
- Jeremy Earp · Writer
- Norman Solomon · Writer
- Loretta Alper · Producer
- Leigh Phillips · Composer
- John Van Eps · Composer
- Andrew Killoy · Editor