THE OIL WAR

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Film Details
Country:USA
Year:2020
Running Time:83
Language:English
Director:David Schisgall
Executive Producer:Amanda Branson Gill
Evgenia Peretz
Jenny Raskin
Dan Cogan
Writer:David Schisgall
Producer:David Schisgall; Co-Producer: Daniel Mooney
Editor:Daniel Mooney; Assistant Editor/Archival: Skyler Johnson
Cinematographer:Stephen McCarthy
Erik Ljung
Composer:Michael Montes; Sound Mixer & Re-Recordist: Eric Masunaga
DOC NYC
Sales Agent:Film Sales Company
Event Years:2020
Festival Section:American Perspectives
Film Genres:Human Rights
History
International
Middle East
Law and Justice
Politics
War and Conflict
World Premiere
Related YouTube URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0RxgQtYIw&list=PLpA9CP7ojEQgV5B9PekyJ37gEb0sPiG9O&index=89

Description

WORLD PREMIERE | Iconoclastic historian Andrew Bacevich delivers an anti-colonial critique of US foreign policy in the Middle East, informed by his long career in the Army. While other historians analyze changing presidential administrations, Bacevich sees one long Oil War. There  are scant differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the sacrifice of soldiers’ lives. His radical analysis has won bipartisan followers and even an invitation to speak with President Obama. Bacevich describes what that meeting reveals about America’s need to break free from its past. 

Watch an exclusive pre-recorded Q&A with Director David Schisgall.