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The War Room
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417026067
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1417026065
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: D26128D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-01
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Editorial Review:
Documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Don't Look Back) and Chris Hegedus shot behind-the-scenes at command central for Bill Clinton's 1992 election campaign and came up with this film. You won't find the kind of daily damage-control and skirt-chasing indirectly alleged in Primary Colors, but the filmmakers do give us a strong sense of the uphill battle of a presidential campaign. The center of the film is really James Carville, who steered the machine for Clinton's '92 run and who comes across in this film as a deeply passionate, complex, and somehow timeless man who could have fit into any chapter of American history. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Primary Source Document
I first saw "The War Room" back when I was a Democrat in the middle nineties and it struck me then as an excellent documentary. My initial assessment remains accurate today even though the politicizing of James Carville now repulses me. This documentary fulfills every expectation. It takes a snapshot at an isolated point in time and conveys a bevy of information about an era. We discover (or re-discover as the case may be) Bill Clinton along with the folks who orchestrated his 1992 campaign. "The ... Read More
Rating:  - A Lazy, Wasted Opportunity
The makers of this film had access to Bill Clinton's campaign war room for his successful 1992 bid for the presidency. Yet, they wasted the opportunity that access provided to them.
The tag-line for the movie is, "they changed the way campaigns are won." "They," in this statement, refers to lead campaign strategist, James Carville, and campaign communications director George Stephanopoulos. The statement derives from one that Carville is seen making late in the film. He tells his ... Read More
Rating: - Good Inside Look
The film is a very interesting inside look at the core campaign group during the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. Well worth a look.
Rating: - Inside the Clinton war machine
In the middle of the 2008 race for the White House, the War Room provides great insight to the inner workings of not just a modern campaign, but into the first Clinton campaign. In many ways this campaign changed the way politics was conducted as much as Karl Rove would eight years later. What makes the movie great is the access to the most inner workings of the Clinton machine, giving not just a fly on the wall view, but a very human one. Perhaps the main weakness, is that no graphics or numerical ... Read More
Rating:  - "Brilliant"
This is a great film to see what is conducted behind the scenes to win a presidential campaign. Great film for students to see two political campaign managers at work. This film also showed these two guy's human side and at the same time funny.
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