The War Prayer

Name: The War Prayer
Released: 2005-11-07
Duration: 14 min
Cast: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Erik Bauersfeld, Peter Coyote

20050h 14mmovie

"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for ...