- Actors: Campbell Scott, Gerald Burke, Ali Fadhil, Omar Fekeiki, Robert Hutchings
- Directors: Charles Ferguson
- Writers: Charles Ferguson
- Producers: Charles Ferguson, Alex Gibney, Audrey Marrs, Jennie Amias, Jessie Vogelson
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language Arabic, English
- Subtitles: Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Magnolia
- DVD Release Date: 30 Oct 2007
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000U6YJMO
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- #92 in Film & TV > Documentary > Politics
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good documentary as the previous reviewer said, it shows the incompetence of the Bush administration. One wonders how the hell these guys can stay in power. However the one criticism is that i think it would have been useful to ask the questions why were the admin so incompetent, why did they make mistakes? was it just plain arrogance or was it on purpose ie if you read about 'the project of the new american century' and 'the grand chessboard'neither of which were mentioned in the film. It seems very plausible that such incompetence was deliberate. Hence an Iraq that would descend into chaos was intended to ensure that the US could maintain their strategic dominance, could plunder Iraq's oil reserves re: see 'Iraq For Sale'. So more anaylsis would have been useful to include.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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If you were to be asked to explain what know about what has happened in Iraq since the invasion from US & Coalition forces, what would your answer be? Probably chaos, civil war, violence or disorder would be some of the words you choose. But the real question is: How did it end up being this way? Who made what decisions that caused the situation to escalate to an unexplainable disaster and a humanitarian crisis? This question is being investigated in the 2007 documentary 'No End in Sight'.
The film focuses on the 2 year period following the invasion of Iraq in. It asserts that serious mistakes made by the Bush administration during that time were the cause of ensuing problems in Iraq, such as the rise of the insurgency, a lack of security and basic utilities for many Iraqis, sectarian violence and, at one point (and continues to be), the risk of complete civil war.
The film consists of interviews with the people who were involved in the initial Iraqi occupation authority and the ORHA (the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, later replaced by the CPA, the Coalition Provisional Authority). 35 people are interviewed, many of them former Bush loyalists who have since become disillusioned by what they experienced at the time.In particular, many of those interviewed claim that the inexperience of the core members of the Bush administration -- and their refusal to seek, acknowledge or accept input from more experienced outsiders -- was at the root of the disastrous occupation effort.
Among those interviewed are:
General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the reconstruction before being replaced by L. Paul Bremer; Ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was placed in charge of the Baghdad embassy; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of the State Department; Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff and Col. Paul Hughes, who worked in the ORHA and then the CPA
This documentary is so fascinating and mind-boggling, you must have seen it to believe what happened in Iraq and what was never reported on mainstream media. The film won many awards incl. Special Jury Price at Sundance Fim Festival, National Society of Film Critics awards and many others - It even was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 as Best Documentary.
The film focuses on the 2 year period following the invasion of Iraq in. It asserts that serious mistakes made by the Bush administration during that time were the cause of ensuing problems in Iraq, such as the rise of the insurgency, a lack of security and basic utilities for many Iraqis, sectarian violence and, at one point (and continues to be), the risk of complete civil war.
The film consists of interviews with the people who were involved in the initial Iraqi occupation authority and the ORHA (the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, later replaced by the CPA, the Coalition Provisional Authority). 35 people are interviewed, many of them former Bush loyalists who have since become disillusioned by what they experienced at the time.In particular, many of those interviewed claim that the inexperience of the core members of the Bush administration -- and their refusal to seek, acknowledge or accept input from more experienced outsiders -- was at the root of the disastrous occupation effort.
Among those interviewed are:
General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the reconstruction before being replaced by L. Paul Bremer; Ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was placed in charge of the Baghdad embassy; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of the State Department; Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff and Col. Paul Hughes, who worked in the ORHA and then the CPA
This documentary is so fascinating and mind-boggling, you must have seen it to believe what happened in Iraq and what was never reported on mainstream media. The film won many awards incl. Special Jury Price at Sundance Fim Festival, National Society of Film Critics awards and many others - It even was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 as Best Documentary.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film, although kind of worth seeing for its depiction of the mess that is post invasion Iraq, puts a lot of emphasis on the 'incompetence' of the Bush camp, and all of their 'mistakes' in post invasion Iraq. It doesn't call into question the crime of going to war in the first place but seems to in some way excuse this by ignoring it and pursuing a 'What went wrong' line in analysing the post invasion. This film talks a lot of the lack of military experience of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush et al. The idea that many have that America would be there for the long run as long as the outcome is American domination of the oil in Iraq seems to me to be missing in this film and is crucial to any analysis of invasion and post invasion plans. (and I don't think that any quick outcome from expert military tactics but which resulted in a peaceful government which was in charge of their own oil without American domination is their objective).
Leaving unquestioned the motivations of the invasion (many would argue oil and big business, and which are of course necessary to investigate in an analysis of post invasion strategy) means that the casual uninformed American and western observer fed on westerm media would think that the supposed aims of 'freedom' and 'democracy for Iraq' have been destroyed or set back by 'incompetence'. This seems like a very small bitter pill for the administration to swallow as so many are against the war, and I'm sure they would rather be seen as 'incompetent' rather than criminal. As the US are building their bases there and securing domination of the oil I wonder if pursuing the (supposed) 'what went wrong' line is really just another smokescreen.
Leaving unquestioned the motivations of the invasion (many would argue oil and big business, and which are of course necessary to investigate in an analysis of post invasion strategy) means that the casual uninformed American and western observer fed on westerm media would think that the supposed aims of 'freedom' and 'democracy for Iraq' have been destroyed or set back by 'incompetence'. This seems like a very small bitter pill for the administration to swallow as so many are against the war, and I'm sure they would rather be seen as 'incompetent' rather than criminal. As the US are building their bases there and securing domination of the oil I wonder if pursuing the (supposed) 'what went wrong' line is really just another smokescreen.
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