Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)

Directed by

Robert Greenwald

Genre

documentary film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary investigates allegations that private companies profited from the Iraq War by overcharging the U.S. government and providing poor services. It focuses on four major contractors who handled security, construction, and other support jobs for the military. The film presents claims that their actions endangered soldiers, civilians, and workers.

informativecriticalsoberinginvestigativeeye-openingdisturbinganger-provokingfact-based

What happens

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. Produced while the Iraq War was in full swing, the film deals with the alleged war profiteering and negligence of private contractors and consultants who went to Iraq as part of the US war effort. Specifically, the film claims four major contractors – Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan – were over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and their own employees. These corporations were tasked with "virtually everything except the actual killing," including food, laundry, housing, security, intelligence gathering and interrogation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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