In honor of the Oscars and documentary, I’ve been looking at all of the nominees for Best Documentary. With the awards on Sunday, it’s time to focus on the last nominee, Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight. An investigation into America’s invasion of Iraq, the film goes in depth to figure out who was behind the invasion and what they were thinking. Ferguson puts his doctorate in political science to good use and creates one of the more succinct arguments against the US presence in Iraq.

The film is said to be more narrow in focus than other documentaries that focus on Iraq, but I tend to agree with A.O Scott’s review in The New York Times, when he says that:

It might be argued that since Mr. Bremer ( L. Paul Bremer III), Mr. Rumsfeld (Donald Rumsfeld) and Mr. Wolfowitz (Paul Wolfowitz) declined to appear in the film, Mr. Ferguson was able to present only one side of the story. But the accumulated professional standing of the people he did interview, and their calm, detailed insistence on the facts, makes such an objection implausible. So too does the corroboration of the journalists who watched the story unfold and, perhaps most of all, the sense that anyone but the hardiest Bush loyalist will feel of having seen versions of this story before. [The New York Times]

Watch the trailer below and to visit the films website and click on “DISCUSS THE WAR” to share your opinions on the subject - as even if you disagree with the films ideas, it does inspire dialogue, which is always a good thing.