While perusing this site I saw the question posed: "What makes a good documentary", and that got me thinking, "Yes, what does make a good documentary?" When I thought of the documentaries I've seen, be they televised or motion picture, I found that all of the good documentaries had one common thread. All good documentaries provided facts and information regarding issues that I never knew about, and probably would never know about without doing extensive research.
In this documentary, for instance, we all knew about Halliburton and its involvement in the Iraq War, but how many of us had heard about Blackwater, Titan, C.A.C.I., or KBR? Or how many of us had heard about the gross negligence on the parts of these companies? Or how they've been egregiously over-charging the government? Or, better still, how our lawmakers cannot even agree to eliminate or at least limit the role of contractors in a war? Some of the information was sad, some of the information was startling, but all of it was necessary for the American public to know. And even as ignorant as most of us would like to remain about the particulars of war, we all should take interest when the government, and in turn, we are funding a war to the benefit of gluttonous corporations.
In this documentary, for instance, we all knew about Halliburton and its involvement in the Iraq War, but how many of us had heard about Blackwater, Titan, C.A.C.I., or KBR? Or how many of us had heard about the gross negligence on the parts of these companies? Or how they've been egregiously over-charging the government? Or, better still, how our lawmakers cannot even agree to eliminate or at least limit the role of contractors in a war? Some of the information was sad, some of the information was startling, but all of it was necessary for the American public to know. And even as ignorant as most of us would like to remain about the particulars of war, we all should take interest when the government, and in turn, we are funding a war to the benefit of gluttonous corporations.