The field of documentaries criticizing the Iraq War is crowded, but No End in Sight stands above the pack. "The most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded." (SF Chronicle) First-time director Charles Ferguson interviewed former top officials, all who were supportive at the time, about the terrible mistakes made by the very top of the administration, by Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney. "It might be argued that since Mr. Bremer, Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Wolfowitz declined to appear in the film, Mr. Ferguson was able to present only one side of the story. But the accumulated professional standing of the people he did interview, and their calm, detailed insistence on the facts, makes such an objection implausible. So too does the corroboration of the journalists who watched the story unfold and, perhaps most of all, the sense that anyone but the hardiest Bush loyalist will feel of having seen versions of this story before. That feeling does not make No End in Sight dull or easy to watch. Quite the contrary. It's a sober, revelatory and absolutely vital film. " (NY Times) Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 2007. More at noendinsightmovie.com 35mm
2007, color, 1 hour 42 minutes, USA