The read
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 12m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Metacritic57/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
24 audience votes
Key crew
- Jeremy EarpWriter
- Loretta AlperDirector
- Jeremy EarpDirector
- Loretta AlperWriter
Cast
- Sean PennNarrator (Voice)
- Norman SolomonSelf
- Spiro AgnewSelf (archive footage)
- Christiane AmanpourSelf (archive footage)
- Wolf BlitzerSelf (archive footage)
- George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- Dick CheneySelf (archive footage)
- Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
- Walter CronkiteSelf (archive footage)
- Phil DonahueSelf (archive footage)
- J. William FulbrightSelf (archive footage)