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| Campbell Scott | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Gerald Burke | ... | Himself | |
| Ali Fadhil | ... | Himself | |
| Omar Fekeiki | ... | Himself | |
| Robert Hutchings | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Hughes | ... | Himself | |
| Marc Garlasco | ... | Himself | |
| George Tenet | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| James Bamford | ... | Himself | |
| Dick Cheney | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Paul Wolfowitz | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Colin Powell | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Samantha Power | |||
| Feisal Istrabadi | ... | Himself (as Faisal Al-Istrabadi) | |
| George Packer | ... | Himself | |
| Joost Hiltermann | ... | Himself | |
| Ahmad Chalabi | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Lawrence DiRita | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Barry Posen | ... | Himself | |
| Lawrence Wilkerson | ... | Himself | |
| Seth Moulton | ... | Himself | |
| David Yancey | ... | Himself | |
| Hugo Gonzalez | ... | Himself | |
| Chris Allbritton | ... | Himself | |
| General Jay Garner | ... | Himself | |
| David McKiernan | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| James Fallows | ... | Himself | |
| Nir Rosen | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Eaton | ... | Himself | |
| Robert Perito | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Bremer | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Walter Slocombe | ... | Himself | |
| Amazia Baram | ... | Himself | |
| Yaroslav Trofimov | ... | Himself | |
| Ray Jennings | ... | Himself | |
| Linda Bilmas | |||
| Ann Gildroy | |||
| Sérgio Vieira de Mello | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Jamal Benomar | ... | Himself | |
| Mahmoud Othman | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Pillar | ... | Himself | |
| Zalmay Khalilzad | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Robert Gates | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Aida Ussayran | |||
| Matt Sherman | ... | Himself | |
| Ashton Carter | ... | Himself |
Directed by | |||
| Charles Ferguson | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Charles Ferguson | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Jennie Amias | .... | producer | |
| Charles Ferguson | .... | producer | |
| Alex Gibney | .... | executive producer | |
| Audrey Marrs | .... | producer | |
| Jessie Vogelson | .... | producer | |
| Mary Walsh | .... | associate producer (as E. Mary Walsh) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Peter Nashel | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Antonio Rossi | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Chad Beck | |||
| Cindy Lee | |||
Production Management | |||
| Alan Oxman | .... | post-production supervisor | |
| Jessie Vogelson | .... | post-production supervisor | |
Sound Department | |||
| Neil Cedar | .... | sound editor | |
| Gautam Choudhury | .... | additional location sound | |
| Paul Flinton | .... | additional location sound | |
| David Hocs | .... | location sound mixer | |
| Peter Miller | .... | sound recordist | |
| Peter Miller | .... | additional location sound | |
| James David Redding III | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| James David Redding III | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| Charles Tomaras | .... | additional location sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Maryse Alberti | .... | additional cinematographer | |
| Mia Barker | .... | assistant camera | |
| Charley Beyer | .... | additional cinematographer | |
| Ben Bloodwell | .... | assistant camera | |
| Mariusz Cichon | .... | assistant camera | |
| Nathan Clapp | .... | assistant camera | |
| Andrew Federman | .... | lighting assistant | |
| Christopher Gleaton | .... | assistant camera | |
| Tom Hurwitz | .... | additional cinematographer | |
| Alan McIntyre Smith | .... | gaffer (as Alan Smith) | |
| Rey Miranda | .... | assistant camera | |
| Edward Rodriguez | .... | assistant camera | |
| Jon Shenk | .... | additional cinematographer | |
| Joia Speciale | .... | assistant camera | |
| Brett Wiley | .... | additional cinematographer | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Will Cox | .... | colorist: high definition | |
| Donna Donato | .... | assistant editor | |
| Bob Eisenhardt | .... | editorial consultant | |
| Edward Jaszi | .... | assistant editor | |
| Antonia Law | .... | assistant editor | |
| Alan Oxman | .... | editorial consultant | |
| Sandy Patch | .... | editor: high definition | |
| Stephen Stept | .... | editorial consultant | |
| David Kuther | .... | additional editor: HDTV (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Brian Deming | .... | score mixer | |
| Brian Deming | .... | score recordist | |
| Tracy McKnight | .... | music supervisor | |
Other crew | |||
| Jay Beverly | .... | production assistant | |
| Kit Bland | .... | production assistant | |
| Ryan Bronz | .... | production assistant | |
| Robin Cutter | .... | production accountant | |
| Richard Dworkin | .... | transcriptor | |
| Jacqueline Eckhouse | .... | production counsel (as Jackie Eckhouse, Esq.) | |
| Kathy England | .... | production insurance | |
| Ali Fadhil | .... | translator | |
| Blair Foster | .... | additional archival researcher | |
| Roja Gashtili | .... | production coordinator | |
| Warzer Jaff | .... | production crew: Iraq | |
| Amer Mohsen | .... | translator | |
| Christopher Murphy | .... | research and archival footage | |
| Emily Osborne | .... | production coordinator | |
| Dana Reiser | .... | production insurance | |
| Nir Rosen | .... | production crew: Iraq | |
| Andrew Siceloff | .... | production intern | |
| David Smallman | .... | litigation counsel | |
| Greg Steinbruner | .... | production assistant | |
| Dan Stein | .... | production assistant | |
| Robert Stein | .... | legal counsel | |
| Bethany Thomas | .... | production insurance | |
| Adriano Valle | .... | production assistant | |
Thanks | |||
| Jake Abraham | .... | thanks | |
| Yasmina Ykelenstam | .... | thanks | |
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| The Dreams of Sparrows | About Baghdad | Fahrenheit 9/11 | In the Shadow of the Palms - Iraq | Gunner Palace |
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Sometimes seeing a documentary that has such immense and complex connotations like the war on Iraq can be so staggering that one might be tempted to rate it highly just based on how compelling the subject matter is. That part of it, of whether it's worthy for a documentary, is important. But first-time director Ferguson does an incredible job of amounting crucial interviews with former Generals and government officials, ex-soldiers, enough footage of Iraq destruction for two or more movies, and a mounting sense of dread over the unequivocal fiasco that what went on leading up to-during-and especially after America invaded Iraq, and the film was more than worthy of a special jury prize at Sundance earlier this year.
It's devastating and infuriating enough to get the people you might be with seeing the film into a heated argument (probably with everyone on the side, at least, that it was profoundly stupid to go into the country to start with, without a real plan anyway), because of the layers that can be taken into account. If one watched the news enough, or read what was available at the time, then some of the information may not be all new-news. But a lot of it is, which throws on fuel to the fire for Ferguson's thesis that with all the mounting mistakes, the most crucial ones came in taking for granted what would happen if say, for example, the Iraqi army was disbanded along with the Ba'ath party (if that's how it's spelled). Interestingly, Ferguson doesn't spend too much time on the blunder that was going into Iraq in the first place; that's for other films and he knows it well (namely Fahrenheit 9/11).
We went in. Now 'what to do next' is really where the cards are all layed out: the looting and rioting, which went on for days and ruined many of Iraq's small places of civilization like museums and libraries (which, of course, Rumsfeld and the US didn't mind and practically encouraged), then after that the whole huge f*** up that was the lack of real planning for after we toppled Sadaam's regime (for Germany after WW2 the plan was layed out two years in advance, for Iraq it started 50 days before the invasion), and very notably Walter B. Slocombe (who comes off stumbling through his interview as he can't answer why he wasn't talking to other advisers about the plans of what to do with the Iraq security) and L Paul Bremer, who crafted the three plans for reconstituting Iraq, which basically created the Insurgency. That part, of course, is a big chunk of No End in Sight, with the blunders continuing on and gaining force with the US involvement in Iraq.
So the question comes first to those thinking about the questions Ferguson lays out through his interview, aside from how in the living hell (literally, if you're over in Iraq) we've now spend two *trillion* dollars over there, which is: Why? To get a documentary like that now probably would make a big enough uproar to get people in the streets. But for now, No End in Sight will have to do.