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The Racket

The first world war was the war ‘to end all wars”. Yet today wars rage across the world, and 2023 saw annual global military reach a record breaking $2.443 Trillion. The Racket, based on the scorching testimony of a military hero turned whistle-blower exposes how warfare continues to bring vast profits to a very few......at the expense of the very many.

  • Joe Jenkins
    Director
  • Joe Jenkins
    Writer
  • Ethics Online
    Producer
  • General Smedley Butler
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Joe Jenkins

Joe Jenkins is a writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker: (Contempt of Conscience, Strasbourg Film Festival (2005); Gaia & Genesis; Campfire Film Festival, Australia (2012). Joe has published several educational books on Ethics & Religion and is co-author of a biography of the poet-mystic Kahlil Gibran. He is currently Director of Ethics Online, producing cutting edge films for classrooms..... and beyond.
For more information please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jenkins-a84914a0/ and https://ethicsonline.co.uk/about/

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Director Statement

Although we face catastrophic climate change, with all its accompanying terrors, 2023 saw global military expenditure reach a record high of $2.443 Trillion...a profitable racket for the few