{"id":1518,"date":"2008-03-24T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/24\/dvd-pick-why-we-fight\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T01:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T00:46:44","slug":"dvd-pick-why-we-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/24\/dvd-pick-why-we-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Pick: Why We Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0010Y9XVC\/026-4466168-1590032?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B0010Y9XVC\" title=\"Why We Fight\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/why-we-fight-dvd-cover.jpg\" title=\"Why We Fight\" alt=\"Why We Fight\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0010Y9XVC\/026-4466168-1590032?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B0010Y9XVC\"><strong>Why We Fight<\/strong><\/a> is a 2005 documentary that explores why the US has engaged in military conflicts since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Eugene Jarecki, it uses as its&#8217; starting point <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_bqr5DVx3dw\">the speech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dwight_D._Eisenhower\">President Eisenhower<\/a> gave in 1961 warning about the dangers of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military-industrial_complex\" title=\"Military-industrial complex\">military-industrial complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Containing interviews with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_McCain\" title=\"John McCain\">John McCain<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Perle\" title=\"Richard Perle\">Richard Perle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Kristol\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"William Kristol\">William Kristol<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gore_Vidal\" title=\"Gore Vidal\">Gore Vidal<\/a> it also explores the story of a Vietnam vet whose son died in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_11%2C_2001_attacks\" title=\"September 11, 2001 attacks\">9\/11 attacks<\/a>; a newly enlisted soldier and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops weapons for the US military.<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating and provocative look at the American war machine, it is well worth checking out if you didn&#8217;t catch at cinemas or on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Extras include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional scenes<\/li>\n<li>Extended character featurettes<\/li>\n<li>Audience Q&amp;A with filmmaker<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Jarecki TV appearances on <em>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/em> and  <em>Charlie Rose on PBS<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Feature length commentary by director Eugene Jarecki and Colonel Lawrence  Wilkerson<\/li>\n<li>Theatrical trailer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is released today in the UK by Axion Films<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eisenhower&#8217;s speech here:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_bqr5DVx3dw&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_bqr5DVx3dw&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0010Y9XVC\/026-4466168-1590032?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B0010Y9XVC\">Buy the DVD from Amazon UK<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/whywefight\">Check out reviews of the film at Metacritic<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/whywefight\">Official site for Why We Fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why We Fight is a 2005 documentary that explores why the US has engaged in military conflicts since World War II. Directed by Eugene Jarecki, it uses as its&#8217; starting point the speech President Eisenhower gave in 1961 warning about the dangers of a military-industrial complex. Containing interviews with John McCain,\u00a0Richard Perle, William Kristol and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}