Everyone should see Why We Fight, Eugene Jarecki's film about war and the military-industrial complex.  For starters, its production values are about a million times better than the usual documentary films of this nature.  This might sound like a feeble criticism, but documentaries which attempt to ape the style and methods of Fox are really getting on my nerves lately, because they will never convince anyone who doesn't already agree with them.  For one thing, most of them aren't very good at it, but they make me feel like even the people I agree with are lying to me; this film, on the other hand, by being just a little bit less full-on, seems to me both more congenial to watch and more likely to succeed.

Secondly, it is intelligent enough not to polarize unnecessarily:  One of the most sympathetic people in the film supported the war in Iraq (there's more to it than that, but I don't want to spoil it).  People with views all over the political spectrum are presented as likeable, good people.  Included in the interviewees are several Iraqi people; I don't think I have seen so much continuous footage of Iraqi civilians from any source.  These, too, are people with different views, presented sympathetically.

Thirdly, it restricts itself to a narrow remit.  It doesn't try and solve the world's problems at a stroke -- just to illuminate one of them.  This means it manages to do this one thing fairly thoroughly.

Finally, it doesn't end with an annoying upbeat call to activism, which reason alone has convinced me that a major part of my life needs to be spent trying to prevent wars.

I will definitely be watching it again.