DVD : No End in Sight
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0876964001021
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 7456
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 11/25/2008 Run time: 102 minutes Rating: Nr
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A staggering portrait of arrogance and incompetence, the documentary No End in Sight avoids the question of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, choosing instead to focus on the war's aftermath--and meticulously examine the chain of decisions that led Iraq into a grotesque state of lawlessness and civil war. Drawing from interviews with top generals, administration officials, journalists, and soldiers who were in the thick of the war itself, No End in Sight lays out a gripping story, as suspenseful as any Hollywood movie, accompanied by terrifying footage of firefights and explosions more vivid than any special effects. Unfortunately, there is no happy ending. If the documentary has a weakness, it's the shortage of voices trying to defend the administration policies (perhaps unsurprisingly, policymakers like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz declined to be interviewed). But the testimony (presented by administration insiders and officials in Iraq, both military and civilian) argues that, despite contrary analysis and experienced advice against its actions, the top brass of the Bush administration made decisions (that aggravated already existing problems and created devastating new ones. No End in Sight builds its case one voice at a time and avoids the grandstanding that undercuts Michael Moore's work; instead, the gradual accumulation of simple facts--presented with weary resignation, earnest outrage, and restrained anger--results in a compelling condemnation of one of the worst blunders the U.S. has ever made. --Bret Fetzer
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Every U.S. Citizen must see this documentary from filmmaker Charles Ferguson if you want to have an educated opinion regarding the War in Iraq. Also, please review Charles Ferguson's biography on the Council on Foreign Relations website at www.cfr.or/bios/10786, to check his credentials - impressive.
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The title of this review is actually a quotation by President George W. Bush found in some archival news footage near the end of this powerful documentary.
This is a documentary film about America's occupation of Iraq. It focuses generally on the two-year period following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and particularly with the period of a few months in the spring and summer of 2003. It asserts that serious mistakes made by the Bush administration during this time were the cause of the ensuing quagmire of problems of guerrilla warfare, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy that dominate Iraq to this day. (Note that this film does initially touch on other aspects prior to the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq.)
To a large extent, this film, besides archival footage, consists of brief interviews with high ranking officials who were involved in the initial Iraqi occupation authority and ORHA (the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, later to be replaced by the CPA, the Coalition Provisional Authority). Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts are also interviewed.
Thirty-five people were briefly interviewed, many of them former Bush loyalists who have since become disillusioned by the incompetence and recklessness they were involved in at the time.
Examples of those interviewed include the following:
(1) General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the reconstruction ... Read More
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All the folks that actually served on the front speak here - and it just underscores the ignorance of Bush and his party - mowing fervently ahead full of their rightness.
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Just when it seemed that documentaries about 9/11 and the Iraq war had played themselves out, along comes writer/director Charles Ferguson's devastating and insightful NO END IN SIGHT. Where FAHRENHEIT 9/11 had basically nailed the Bush cabal for lying about the reasons America went to war in Iraq, and many other documentaries skewered the news media for basically being in bed with the administration, Ferguson probes into what was and was NOT going on in Iraq before, during, and after the invasion; and if you think you've seen it all, NO END IN SIGHT shows that what you've really seen is the mere tip of the iceberg.
In the film, Ferguson gets to interview people who were actually there in the firestorm, like Jay Garner, Paul Hughes, Barbara Bodine, deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Seth Moulton, a U.S. Marine, and others who were involved in trying to reconstruct Iraq, and who instead found themselves totally stymied by an administration that displayed the worst in America: arrogance; venality; incompetence; cockiness; and indifference. The idea that we would topple Saddam Hussein, restore order, create a new government, and then leave within six months or so was ludicrous to begin with anyway on paper; but as the graphic footage of the looting, the IEDs, and the various recountings by our people, numerous journalists (including George Packer), and various Middle East experts, show, it was infinitely worse when put into practice. The unfortunate thing of it all ... Read More
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This is a very interesting documentary that focuses on the Second Iraq War and the immediate aftermath. I must not have been paying close attention to the news when these events unfolded, because much of it was new to me. It is a very balanced look (not Michael Moore-style at all) that focuses on interviews with military, political and civilian institutions that were there, and how the decision making took place.
This documentary doesn't pass judgment on whether going to Iraq in the first place was a good idea, what it does pass judgment on are the decisions made after the US took over and how that affected the chaos that ensued. It is a very informative documentary and I highly recommend it.
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starring: Campbell Scott, Gerald Burke, Ali Fadhil, Omar Fekeiki, Robert Hutchings (II)
directed by: Charles Ferguson (III)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0876964001021
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 7456
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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