Fiche du Film

Why We Fight

Date de Sortie: vendredi 17 février 2006
Genre: Documentaire

Réalisateur: Eugene Jarecki
Producteur: Eugene Jarecki, Susannah Shipman
Scénario: Eugene Jarecki
Studio: Mongrel Media
Durée: 98 min.

Résumé:

Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase “military industrial complex”), filmmaker Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic, ideological – that drives them to fight against an ever-changing enemy?