This film, like its brilliant counterpart The Fog of War is a great and important documentary. Not only has its director paid the respect all documentary filmmakers must do to their audiences, engage them in territory they need to understand, but he has provided stories, characters and insights for his viewers in arena that they are inevitably unfamiliar with - an extraordinary feat considering the likely handicaps that Jarecki must have had when he started his mission. Not the least the he was opening up a can of worms within a notoriously protected and secret environment: the American war machine. Anybody who has any interest at all in US politics must see this film and any curious viewer who wants to have their eyes out on storks for a couple of hours must see this rigorous and profound documentary. Produced with the BBC and its great commissioning editor Nick Fraser, (Jarecki's collaborator on an earlier film about Henry Kissinger), this deserving Sundance winner proves that articulate, powerful political expression is alive and well in the United States. Hooray!
Review of Why We Fight
