War Made Easy (2007)

7.2/10 72 min Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

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)

Sean Hannity

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self (archive footage)

Barbara Lee

Self (archive footage)

Jim Lehrer

Self (archive footage)

Rush Limbaugh

Self (archive footage)

Douglas MacArthur

Self (archive footage)

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