WAR MADE EASY:
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
Narrated by Sean Penn
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. Narrated
by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival
footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W.
Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have
uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive
presidential administrations.
War Made Easy
gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the
war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon’s meticulous
research and tough-minded analysis, the film presents disturbing
examples of propaganda and media complicity from the present alongside
rare footage of political leaders and leading journalists from the
past, including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara, dissident Senator Wayne Morse, and news correspondents Walter
Cronkite and Morley Safer.
Norman
Solomon’s work has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “brutally
persuasive” and essential “for those who would like greater context
with their bitter morning coffee.” This film now offers a chance to see
that context on the screen.
Approx. 72 minutes
English subtitles
Color | Stereo | NTSC | All Region Encoded DVD
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