Film

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

2006 · 1h 15m · Documentary

IMDb

7.6

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

68

Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and material to American troops while providing little oversight. Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made by the interviewees.

Shereef Akeel

Self

Chris Dodd

Self (archive footage)

Carl Levin

Self (archive footage)

Byron Dorgan

Self (archive footage)

• Robert GreenwaldDirector

Release date

September 1, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

PG

Genres

Documentary