As a CliffsNotes history lesson, Ferguson’s doc is a much needed attempt to uncover what happened; as a film, it’s a jumble of questionable choices.
No End in Sight (2007)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:84
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Charles Ferguson's documentary provides a good summary of the decisions that led to the mess in post-war Iraq, and offers politically interested audiences something they'd been looking for: a lowdown on the decision making.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $1,250,100
Synopsis: The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale... The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency a --© Magnolia Films [More]
Starring: Richard Armitage
Starring: Richard Armitage
Director: Charles Ferguson
Director: Charles Ferguson
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson
Composer: Peter Nashiel
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
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Reviews for No End in Sight
Ferguson’s inquiry into the war doesn’t spend much time on the ground, but it features a tense round-up of talking heads and finds an effective weapon in their shared tone of frustration.
This essential documentary is a clear-eyed, coherent dissection of how crucial decisions were made in the first weeks and months following the American invasion of Iraq.
Soberly narrated by Campbell Scott, the film is a meticulous, thoroughly engrossing lesson in how not to win friends (or wars) and influence people (or potential terrorists).
If you want take the leap from disbelief and confusion to a clearer, empowering understanding of how we arrived at our current predicament, then political scientist Charles Ferguson's documentary No End In Sight is highly recommended.
Should be required viewing for anyone who thinks the Iraq war is progressing according to plan.
Yet another doc that socks it to the current administration's foreign policy--this one most effectively.
A documentary that rues the fact that the US was not able to impose its will on the Iraqi people, but never questions the right to do so.
A damning critique conducted with surgical precision, Ferguson's Sundance Festival prize-winning film is arguably one of the most comprehensive and rigorous docus about the failures of the Bush administration vis-a-vis the Iraq War.
The film is methodically edited, interspersing tales from the ground with policy wonks, decisions with consequences, until it paints the administration into a corner.
[Director] Ferguson delivers the calm, meticulous survey of U.S. policy that legions of critics of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 have been waiting for.
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