Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, Phil Donahue, Sean Penn

Endeavors 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. Exhumes archival footage of official di...( read more  read more... )stortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing how the news media have uncritically disseminated the messages of successive presidential administrations. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon''s research and analysis, the film pays special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 12 min.

Directed by: Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp

Release Date: May 14, 2007

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DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008

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  • June 18, 2009
    I stand by Stephen J. Gould's candid assertion that Americans are the most politically gullible people in the world. War Made Easy is a documentary about how the government programs us to accept its agendas, with war used as the example in this study of government deception.
    Thi...( read more)s film is not a panacea of revolutionary information. However like a book called The Pretorian Guard by former Pentagon Offical John Stockwell, it peels the wallpaper back a bit. When one accumulates enough glimpses of what lies behind, it is possible to extrapolate and acquire some idea of the big picture. This film provides one such glimpse, and a few intellectual tools for interpreting the programming we are all exposed to.
  • June 11, 2009
    an interesting but slow film that asksa couple of very good questions. has a politian or journalist ever lied to us? if so then why do we believe the next thing they say?
  • November 14, 2008
    Interesting but nothing really new about it.
  • September 16, 2008
    It was an okay documentary. Nothing too special.
  • June 13, 2008
    A crappy and boring anti-war documentary that says no new information that people didn't already know.
  • September 8, 2007
    I had never heard of this, but I can not wait to see it.
  • August 18, 2007
    Hmmm...sounds interesting...
  • August 8, 2007
    i look forward to this one.
  • July 27, 2007
    this movie definitely managed to piss me off. i'd recommend it to everybody but flixter has yet to give it a description or poster or anything for that matter.

Critic Reviews


November 20, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Makes a strong case that when it comes to military action, the American public has been deceived by presidents from Lyndon Johnson on down the line to the current occupant of the White House. full review

October 4, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

While the film is intensely skeptical of the power elite, it has a refreshing faith in democracy. full review

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