From the Studio that Brought you JESUS CAMP and CONTROL ROOM, Magnolia Pictures is Proud to Present NO END IN SIGHT in Theaters July 27th .
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.
"Let me say this: If you could only see ONE documentary on the Iraq War, let it be 'NO END IN SIGHT.'" - Crooksandliars.com YouTube Trailer Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =qGPp-WhgEXE
Assets Link:
http://www.specialopsmedia.com/assets/Magnolia/NoEndInSight/assets.zip Official Site:
http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/Synopsis:
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.
How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush administration's decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
The film systematically dissects the Bush administration's Iraq policy decisions and their consequences, which now include 3,000 American deaths and 20,000 American wounded, Iraq on the brink of civil war, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths, the strengthening of Iran, the weakening of the U.S. military and economic costs of over $2 trillion . It marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq.
From Owen Gleiberman's ( Entertainment Weekly) coverage of the Sundance Film Festival this year:
"...what I was looking for-questing for-at Sundance this year was a film that had the potential to break out of the festival's hothouse bubble atmosphere and cause a genuine stir, maybe even a minor earthquake in the real world.
I found that film when I saw No End in Sight, a coolheaded, devastating exposé that, with the right handling, could turn out to be An Inconvenient Truth for the Iraq war. Let's be clear: This is no leftist agitprop, no Michael Moore harangue. The director, Charles Ferguson, works with a thirst for history that transcends ideology, as he gets a platoon of Bush officials, from Richard Armitage to Jay Garner to the eloquently outraged former officer of strategic policy Col. Paul Hughes, to go on record about how their advice was trivialized and ignored. As they speak, the film pulls back, like a telescope, to reveal each link in the gasp-inducing chronology of the Bush team's bungling arrogance. No End in Sight leaves you furious at an administration of armchair warriors, yet it offers the catharsis of cold hard truth."
Crooks and Liars Article:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/28/no-end-in-sight-iraq-war-the-movie/ Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huffpost-editors/iraq-documentary-heads-fo_b_53089.html 
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