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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes78%
Metacritic68/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
125 audience votes
Key crew
- Eugene JareckiDirector
- Eugene JareckiWriter
- Robert MillerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Chalmers JohnsonSelf - CIA, 1967-1973
- Joseph CirincioneSelf - Carnegie Endowment for Peace
- Gore VidalSelf - Author, "Imperial America"
- Charles 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)
- Ken AdelmanSelf
- John AshcroftSelf (archive footage)
- Osama bin LadenSelf (archive footage)
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)
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Themes
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