War Is Sell On DVD

We here at DVD Confidential are always looking for interesting new documentaries and this one looks promising indeed. Here is the background info, direct from the studio:

"Prolefeed Studios is proud to announce the DVD release of War is
Sell, documentarian Brian Standing's timely exploration of the
history, tactics and culture of war propaganda. Acclaimed by
audiences at the Wisconsin Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film
Festival, the Martha's Vineyard Independent Film Festival and others,
War is Sell is now available for home video.

War is Sell dissects the strategies of war propagandists - soldiers
armed not with guns, but with words, pictures and commercial
advertising techniques in their "battle to win hearts and minds." How
do you sell a war? How do the techniques of government propagandists,
public relations consultants and commercial advertisers work, and why
are they so effective? How did the United States become a master of
domestic war propaganda over the course of the twentieth century? If,
as many claim, human beings are biologically "hard-wired" to wage war,
why should propaganda be necessary at all? Is it possible to train
people to critically evaluate, and ultimately resist, deceptive
propaganda messages? War is Sell uses archival films, television news
coverage, propaganda images from WWI and the Iraq War and interviews
with a diverse set of researchers to answer these and other questions
in a lively, absorbing manner.

The new 2-disk DVD edition includes:
- a previously unreleased & remix edit;
- deleted scenes, including Rahul Mahajan discussing racism in
propaganda, John Stauber discussing embedded reporters, and Mary
Carpenter's trench warfare; classroom exercise;
- previously unseen speeches on the Iraq War and media reform by
journalists Alexander Cockburn, Robert Fisk, and Amy Goodman;
- original propaganda films and graphics materials from WWI, WWII and the Iraq War."