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      No End in Sight

      Released Jul 27, 2007 1 hr. 42 min. Documentary List
      96% 98 Reviews Tomatometer 94% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score This documentary film takes a critical look at the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the war that followed. The film includes extensive interviews with various military and government officials, many of whom worked under President George W. Bush during the beginning of the Iraq war. Filmmaker Charles Ferguson uses these first-hand accounts to suggest that the Bush administration, as well as the provisional government they instated in Iraq, have made crucial, irresponsible errors. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 20 Buy Now

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      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.

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      Nawt W The title says it all. And as much as you wish it was a whole overview of the conflict, it's not. It's just a highlight of screw-ups and gigantic oversights that, with good enough highsight, seem quite obvious but not the entire administration. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Need a picture that discusses decision-making as the main apparent topic, also bringing up the consequences of poor planning? This horrific yet questionable documentary sums up the United States' actions towards Afghanistan as they were waiting for a reason from recent terrorism as political benefit of evident stray, unfocused. It led with a "peaceful" attempt to lawfully nothingness of bland statues before measuring up against written laws around non-existing loops because of being driven with power that led to worse consequences without political accountability due to arrogant, inexperienced pride. Quite a thought-provoking summary impactfully delivered as an exposal documentary that decently clarified the worsening horrors while nicely expressing the accompanied connective tissues that both still echoes today, between there and elsewhere. (B+) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Regardless of one's stance on the Iraq war, it is impossible to deny that many mistakes were made. For a big list of them- watch this. The great crime of this documentary is how interesting and compelling it is, given that it's simply summarising relatively recent events. As it just so happens, many of those events are so unbelievable that you couldn't make them up. Watch this, watch 'Taxi to the dark side', watch 'Standard operating procedure' - watch them all. They're all great and they all matter. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member from the director that later brought us The Inside Job, this is a must-see documentary about not just why the invasion of Iraq was wrong, but boy, how we wasted 1.8 trillion dollars on how to reconstruct a country wrong 500 ways and the horror that still awaits us. Bush is just an idiot child placed in the throne - the true war criminals are the gangs that made the decisions they did --Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bremer, Slocombe. Talk about how to destroy a country --this movie gives you the blow by blow about how the action of an incompetent few can have everlasting consequences! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Very well done. Should be required viewing. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member watched today for memorial day. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Caryn James New York Times Charles Ferguson's gripping No End in Sight relies on former Bush administration officials to make the case that in its earliest stages the American military operation in Iraq was catastrophically mismanaged. Nov 30, 2017 Full Review David Fear Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Cliff Doerksen Time Out Rated: 5/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com The first great documentary of 2007. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Sep 18, 2020 Full Review David Lamble Bay Area Reporter The "Eureka" moment in Charles Ferguson's exhaustive catalogue of our government's screw-ups is an Iraqi man crying at the sight of a burned-out building... May 26, 2020 Full Review Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper [A] bracing documentary that asserts what most of us already know: The Iraq war has been a travesty. Jan 28, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis This documentary film takes a critical look at the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the war that followed. The film includes extensive interviews with various military and government officials, many of whom worked under President George W. Bush during the beginning of the Iraq war. Filmmaker Charles Ferguson uses these first-hand accounts to suggest that the Bush administration, as well as the provisional government they instated in Iraq, have made crucial, irresponsible errors.
      Director
      Charles Ferguson
      Executive Producer
      Alex Gibney
      Screenwriter
      Charles Ferguson
      Distributor
      Magnolia Pictures
      Production Co
      Red Envelope Entertainment, Representational Pictures
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 27, 2007, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 23, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $1.4M
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