Why We Fight

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  • Director: Eugene Jarecki
  • Cast: Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistoryWar
  • Premiere: 2005
  • Running time: 98 min
  • Rated: PG-13

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

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Accolades: 4 wins & 3 nominations

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