Political movies are not usually hot. I mean, politics is generally left to those who love detail and the minutiae of obscure personal behavior. However, “Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War” is a sparkling film.

MoveOn.org, a democratic and Democratic party organization, promotes the movie. I expected a bunch of annoying Bush bashing and anti-Republican rhetoric. The opposite occurs. The Bush administration is uncomfortably strangled by its own words. Robert Greenwald, director and producer, uses a host of top government advisers, workers and insiders, thereby neatly sidestepping the ugly side of politics. The movie instructs us how the argument to go to war was made, and why that argument was wrong and quite possibly criminal.

Mel Goodman, a 20-year senior CIA analyst, explains that, “By the late 1990, and especially by 2003, it was clear that Iraq had no nuclear weapon programs.”

OK, so we know that there were no weapons of mass destruction. Scott Ritter, former UN inspector, tells us that it was a deliberate attempt to take information and say that Iraq had W.M.D. But John Dean, former White House lawyer during Nixon’s fated days, lays out the most compelling analysis of the Administrations rhetoric.

“It is a federal felony — a crime — to mislead and distort the congress.”

At only 56 minutes long, the movie moves quickly. Alternating between televised speeches and analyses by former military, CIA and Foreign Service personnel, the tone is educating and seething. Jim Gilliam, who just worked with Ariana Huffington on her latest book, researched the film. Many of the participants in the documentary are incredibly frustrated that their hard work, or that of their colleagues, has been distorted, and more so they are adamant to get the truth out to restore democracy.