The compelling new documentary film, “Making A Killing: From Bayonet Capitalism To Corporate Plutocracy,” by writer and producer, Bob Gray, traces the history of America’s use of military and espionage forces to promote and protect private, American corporate interests around the globe, from Manifest Destiny to the Global War On Terror.
Much of the film is told through the voices the Presidents, Senators, Generals, Writers, and Common Citizens of history. It features the words of Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, the most-decorated American Marine in history, whose post-service memoir, War Is A Racket, provides a grim view of the history of America’s “spreading of democracy.”
Inspired by the book, A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, the film provides a sobering re-assessment of the all-too-familiar whitewashed versions of American history.
Best-selling author, John Perkins, Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, is featured and provides a compelling narrative of the birth and spread of the CIA and highlights a few of the agency’s corporate-friendly interventions through history. He explains the evolution of the economic hit men and details how they were able to financially manipulate third-world countries into giving up their much-coveted natural resources to western interests, without a shot being fired.
The film has a run time of fifty-two minutes thirty seconds, making it both appropriate and accessible to classroom and television time slots. DVDs are available through www.MakingAKillingTheMovie.com.
This 2014 film is from Sarasota’s Sunburnt Studio (Anne Derwent and Bob Gray), the same people who produced the 2005 film, “Aftershock: American Voices,” which provided one of the only accounts of the massive demonstrations surrounding the second inauguration of George W. Bush. This day-in-the-life documentary is still must-see viewing for everyone who recalls the shock and horror of the second Bush election.