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• War made Easy | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  War Made Easy exposes a 50 year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn the film exhumes remarkable archive footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. War Made East gives special attention to the parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon''s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis the film presents disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from the present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading journalists from the past including Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Defence Secretary Robert McNamara dissident Senator Wayne Morse and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.

• War Photogaper | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An Oscar nominee for best documentary War Photographer was directed by Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei who followed Nachtwey for many the greatest war photographer of his generation to Kosovo Palestine and Indonesia. We see the photographer in combat zones and pockets of horrific poverty approaching his subjects slowly with a hand raised in peace. After 20 years of covering war poverty and famine Nachtwey still sees his work as an antidote to war and his photographs as a graphic negotiation for peace.