No End in Sight

No End in Sight (2007) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Charles Ferguson. It traces, step by step, how the U.S. occupation of Iraq came apart in the spring of 2003, right after Saddam's government fell.

Ferguson lays out the choices made in Washington and Baghdad: no real plan to run the country, too few troops to hold order, and the three edicts Paul Bremer announced the moment he took over the provisional authority. The voices here aren't outside pundits — they are the officers, diplomats and officials who actually sat in those rooms. Campbell Scott narrates.

What makes it land is the cool, chronological accounting of one bureaucratic miss after another; no shouting, just the paper trail. Ferguson's debut, made before Inside Job, was up for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Stream No End in Sight online on iFILM.