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  • War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
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    73 min | Documentary, History, War
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Not Rated
73 min | Documentary, History, War

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...See moreWar 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. Written by Anonymous See less
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Directors
Loretta Alper (directed by) | Jeremy Earp (directed by)
Writers
Loretta Alper (written by) | Jeremy Earp (written by) | Norman Solomon (based on the book by)
Producer
Loretta Alper (produced by)
Composers
Leigh Phillips (original music) | John Van Eps (original music)
Editor
Andrew Killoy (edited by)
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Release date
May 14, 2007 (United States)

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36 cast members
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Spiro Agnew
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Christiane Amanpour
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Peter Arnett
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Wolf Blitzer
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George Bush
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George W. Bush
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Dick Cheney
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Bill Clinton
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Walter Cronkite
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Phil Donahue
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J. William Fulbright
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Sean Hannity
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Brit Hume
Self - Fox News Senior Political Analyst (archive footage) Self - Fox News Senior Political Analyst (archive footage)   See fewer
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) Self (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)   See fewer
Henry Kissinger
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Morton Kondracke
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Charles Krauthammer
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Barbara Lee
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Jim Lehrer
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Rush Limbaugh
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Douglas MacArthur
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Michelle Malkin
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Chris Matthews
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Robert McNamara
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Wayne Morse
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John Murtha
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Richard Nixon
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Bill O'Reilly
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Sean Penn
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Colin Powell
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Ronald Reagan
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Donald Rumsfeld
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Morley Safer
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Joe Scarborough
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Norman Solomon
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Paul Wolfowitz
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