7.7

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

2006, USA

• Actors: Shereef Akeel, Hassan Al-Azzawi, Al Haj Ali, Scott Allen, Keith Ashdown, Mark Benjamin, Doug Brooks, Henry Bunting, George W. Bush, Ben Carter, Joshua Casteel, Pratap Chatterjee, Dick Cheney, Bud Conyers, Charlie Cray, Aidan Delgado, Marie de Young, Christopher Dodd, Jim Donahue, Byron Dorgan, Kelly Dougherty, Chris Farrell, Alan Grayson, Bunnatine Greenhouse, Scott Helvenston, Katy Helvenston-Wettengal, Hollie Hulett, Duncan Hunter, Peter Jennings, April Johnson
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Director(s): Robert Greenwald
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and material to American troops while providing little oversight. Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made by the interviewees.

  7.6

Fahrenheit 9/11

2004, USA

• Actors: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush, James Baker III, Richard Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Jeffrey Toobin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Ricky Martin, Byron Dorgan, Osama Bin Laden, Craig Unger, Larry King, Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Jack Cloonan, Bill Clinton, James C. Moore, Robert Jordan, Dan Briody, John Major, Helen Thomas, Carol Ashley, Thomas Kean, Rosemary Dillard, Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth.

  8.1

Bowling for Columbine

2002, Canada, USA, Germany

• Actors: Jacobo Arbenz, Mike Bradley, Arthur A. Busch, George Bush, George W. Bush, Michael Caldwell, Richard Castaldo, Dick Clark, Steve Davis, Ngo Dinh Diem, Byron Dorgan, Mike Epstein, Joe Farmer, Mike Fasolo, Denny Fennell, Barry Glassner, John Harris, Dick Herlan, Charlton Heston, Jeremy Hicks, Ernest F. Hollings, Jimmie Hughes, Dick Hurlin, Amanda Lamante, Mary Lorenz, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Mauser, Tom Mauser, Evan McCollum, Timothy McVeigh
• Genre: Documentary, History
• Director(s): Michael Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.