War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Directors:

Loretta Alper
Jeremy Earp

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Learn history. Then change it.

Plot:

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception...

Cast

George Bush	...	(archive footage)
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bill Clinton	...	(archive footage)
Phil Donahue	...	(archive footage)
Lyndon Johnson	...	(archive footage)
Barbara Lee	...	(archive footage)
Robert McNamara	...	(archive footage)
Wayne Morse	...	(archive footage)
Richard Nixon	...	(archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly	...	(archive footage)
Sean Penn	...	Narrator
Colin Powell	...	(archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld	...	(archive footage)
Norman Solomon	...	Interviewee
Paul Wolfowitz	...	(archive footage)

Directed by
Loretta Alper
Jeremy Earp

Produced by
Loretta Alper	....	producer
Jeremy Earp	....	executive producer
Sut Jhally	....	executive producer
Andrew Killoy	....	co-producer
Jason Young	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Leigh Phillips
John Van Eps

Film Editing by
Andrew Killoy

Sound Department
Peter Acker	....	sound engineer

Camera and Electrical Department
David Rabinovitz	....	camera operator

Animation Department
Andrew Killoy	....	motion graphics
Shannon McKenna	....	animation graphic designer

Music Department
Stephane Guyot	....	additional music mixer
Leigh Phillips	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Janet Brocklehurst	....	production assistant
Molly Jackson-Watts	....	production assistant
Anna Mester	....	production assistant
Scott Morris	....	production assistant
Nick Romanow	....	production assistant
David Rooks	....	production assistant
John Paul Seely	....	production assistant
Krystal Tucker	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Media Education Foundation

Distributors

• Media Education Foundation (2007) (USA) (all media)

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (NTSC Color)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo (Western Electric Sound System)

Company:

Media Education Foundation

I Found Out That I Didn't Know What I Thought I Knew.

I am a very critical thinker and have prided myself on not being taken in the propaganda of our business (greed) interested media. After seeing this movie at an University of Oregon symposium I am shaking my head at how easy it is to manipulate the mass population, whether it is by the right or the left, and whether they are on guard. I never connected the dots before on how easy it is to sell war and just how gullible we all are.

This movie should be shown in every critical thinking class at both the high school and college level. It is a wake up call for all of us to protect ourselves from the subtle, effective media propaganda that influences us in just about all our decisions.

Although this movies is critical of our current president and his politics, it doesn't treat kindly those who preceded him in the office of the presidency. The way things stand today the choice between Democrat or Republican is simply what ever we have been told it is and doesn't equate to the reality of politics where money rules.

I probably have talked to most of my friends about this movie more than any other movie this year. I can guarantee you more than one epipthany.