No End in Sight

Name: No End in Sight
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: July 27, 2007
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 89

2007

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: July 27, 2007

Summary: The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerrilla 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 fallThe first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerrilla 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 and chaos that engulf Iraq today. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

Director: Charles Ferguson

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Runtime: 102 min

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Richard Schickel

Prepare to be riveted: No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's first film, is without question the most important movie you are likely to see this year. Read full review

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Michael Sragow

If any movie can rid Americans of "Iraq war fatigue," it's Charles Ferguson's muscular documentary No End in Sight. Read full review

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Michael Phillips

May be the best and saddest film of the year so far. Read full review

Connie Ogle

The most remarkable aspect of Charles Ferguson's lacerating documentary about the U.S. invasion of Iraq is that the film contains virtually no new information, and yet its message is as compelling as if we were hearing it for the first time. Read full review

Jack Mathews

The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries. Read full review

Marc Mohan

The first to take a big-picture view of just how the plans for postwar occupation went so far off track. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Some documentaries are a fervent search for truth; others are a fervent search for snickers. This one is the latter, providing via interviews and old film clips a Greatest Hits for Bush haters. Read full review

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MM.

Jul 31, 2007

What many of us hoped Farenheit 911 would be -- there is minimal editorializing. The film soberly documents layer upon layer of incompetence, showing us how the U.S. got to this point in Iraq. A must see for anyone that wants to understand the history of this war.

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Deanomite

Feb 12, 2020

The US destroyed Iraq systematically in order to rob their natural supplies and hijack the US population through deception disguised as confusion. It is an interesting lesson in how the fog of war is created, how the military perform a global takeover, themselves taken over by corporate monopolies.

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CydneyB.

Aug 11, 2007

I knew that Iraq had gone to hell in a handbasket, but I never really understood the progression of the insanity until I saw this movie. For anyone who wants to understand the overall picture, but who doesn't have time to read the 600 page books that have come out trying to explain.. I knew that Iraq had gone to hell in a handbasket, but I never really understood the progression of the insanity until I saw this movie. For anyone who wants to understand the overall picture, but who doesn't have time to read the 600 page books that have come out trying to explain.. go see this movie. It puts all the sordid, stupid pieces together.… Expand

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steve

Oct 11, 2007

Wow, Josh, way to copy the NY Post review. That's about the intellectual level of the true-believer right these days.

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Argex

Nov 14, 2007

One of the best doc I have seen recently. Scary, and depressing but enlightening.

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MichaelD.

Aug 12, 2007

If you want to understand why we are in a fiasco in Iraq, go see this movie.

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ArthurC.

Nov 25, 2007

89!!! Well, I must have been watching the wrong movie, because the one I saw sucked. It was so boring, not during but overall, what is the point to this?

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