Product Details

• Actors: Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Mark Dayton, Richard Clarke, Senator Robert Byrd, George W. Bush
• Directors: Robert Taicher
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: RTW Productions, LLC
• DVD Release Date: January 15, 2005
• Run Time: 61 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007NA3ZC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #87,204 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor
Robert Taicher began his film career working closely with critically acclaimed director Alejandro Jodorowsky as the producer of "The Holy Mountain" (1973). Through the years, Robert worked with Jodorowsky as a script and production consultant, most notably on "Santa Sangre" (1990) which was on Roger Ebert's top ten film list of 1990. He also worked alongside Jodorowsky rewriting the script and assisting actors with dialogue and performance for the English language version of "The Rainbow Thief" (1992) starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Shariff and Christopher Lee produced at Pinewood Shepperton Studios in England.

Robert wrote and directed the feature film Inside Out (1987) starring Elliott Gould and Jennifer Tilly which critic Jeffrey Lyons described as "one of the most unusual, well acted and well directed films of the year" and was praised in The Hollywood Reporter as "one of the best performances of Elliott Gould’s career."

Product Description
"Rush To War" examines the issues surrounding September 11th and American foreign policy. Early in October, three weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, director Robert Taicher and a small film crew drove from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and New York, interviewing a cross-section of Americans in the aftermath of the events.

Following the invasion of Afghanistan and the Administration's un-anticipated war with Iraq, Taicher interviewed a number of government officials, foreign policy experts, and journalists, including former Senator George McGovern, former ambassadors Joe Wilson and Peter Tomsen, Samantha Power (Harvard University), Zia Mian (Princeton University), Thomas Gouttierre (University of Nebraska at Omaha), and Mark Danner (UC Berkeley); nationally syndicated columnists Robert Scheer, Molly Ivins and Chris Hedges (New York Times). The film also includes commentaries from Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, former General Anthony Zinni and former Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke.

Among the issues explored are: the Cold War and CIA interventions around the world from the 1950s through the 1970s, America's involvement with the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, and the history of the United States' two wars with Iraq, with particular emphasis on the current administration's policies and actions in the war on terror and its consequences for global security in the 21st century.

Customer Reviews

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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Facts Every American Should Know..., September 21, 2005

By	Laura J. McCarthy "manateecow" (Eagle, Idaho, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As the mother of a soldier currently in Iraq, I watched this documentary with great interest. Without sarcasm or sentimentality, Robert Taicher has pieced together the facts behind how 9/11 came to be and how our nation has been duped into responding in ways that will do us more harm than good, both now and in the long run. Interviews are with well-known people as well as with a cross section of the American public, all giving voice to the cause and effect of America's continuing history of misguided, immoral, and illegal activities in its never-ending quest for power and dominance throughout the world. This film is a must-see for everyone in America. It is an eye-opener for the uninformed, the misinformed, the narrow-minded, and the self-centered American public because it makes clear that America might well be its own worst enemy.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All-star cast! Very informative., April 3, 2005

By	Joseph Hamad (PA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This dvd has an all-star cast including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, George McGovern, and Scott Ritter. It is a perfect place to start for anyone who wants to know the TRUTH about the current administration's absolute ignorance of the international community as well as its highly hypocritical foreign relation policies.

5.0 out of 5 stars For all Americans to watch!, October 21, 2007

By	Greg (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

As a lover of all types of documentary films, I purchased this new DVD because I'm interested in politics and the war in Iraq and what is going on with our country.

What a surprising film this turned out to be! It is a terrific American independent film that tells the entire story of how we got involved in the war in Iraq and what President George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and others in the current administration are doing in their positions of power.

The film tells the entire story from start to finish and really tells all the hidden secrets that the government doesn't want us to know. I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to know the true story of why we went to war in Iraq and all the fascinating details behind the war.