Summary
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
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- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Party vibe
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+11)
Critics 68Audiences 79GoodWatch 73
Metascore68
IMDb8.0
User score7.7
Running time
1 h 38 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9698Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 126 countries
+116Released
2005
January 20, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryHistoryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
GermanArabicMade in
Canada
Denmark
France
United Kingdom- United States
Rated
- PG-13United States
Yes: it's rated PG-13 in the United States, and the viewing guide lists it for family nights.
What's in it
- ViolenceMild
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesStrong
Levels from the title analysis.
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and 9 more16 people
- CJChalmers JohnsonSelf - CIA, 1967-1973
- JCJoseph CirincioneSelf - Carnegie Endowment for Peace
- Gore VidalSelf - Author, "Imperial America"
- CLCharles LewisSelf - Center for Public Integrity
- Richard PerleSelf - Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Defense
- William KristolSelf - Project for the New American Century
- John McCainSelf - Senator (R/AZ)
- KAKen AdelmanSelf
- John AshcroftSelf (archive footage)
- Osama bin LadenSelf (archive footage)
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)
Robert ByrdSelf (archive footage)
Frank CapraSelf (archive footage)
Dick CheneySelf (archive footage)
Dennis HastertSelf (archive footage)
Directing · 1
- Eugene Jarecki Director, Writer, Producer
Production · 8
- Hans Robert Eisenhauer Executive Producer
- Nick Fraser Executive Producer
- Roy Ackerman Executive Producer
- Mette Hoffman Meyer Executive Producer
- Prudence Arndt Producer
- Susannah Shipman Producer
Camera · 3
- Étienne Sauret Director of Photography
- Brett Wiley Director of Photography
- May Ying Welsh Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Nancy Kennedy Editor
Sound · 1
- Robert Miller Original Music Composer
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