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DIRECTOR
  • Eugene Jarecki
WRITER
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  • Production Companies
  • ARTE
  • BBC Storyville
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
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He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests. —Ørnåspolitical superpowerwar crimewar criminalamerican imperialismmilitary industrial complex37 morePlot summaryPlot synopsisTaglinesIt is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.GenresDocumentaryHistoryWarMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)Rated PG-13 for disturbing war images and brief languageParents guide

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IMDB Score
8.08/10
Rotten Tomatoes Score
78%