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Films covering conflicts from World War II to Iraq dominated a short list released on Monday of movies that will compete for an Academy Award for the best documentary of 2007.
   Eight of the 15 films on the short-list deal with past or current wars. Among the others is Michael Moore’s Sicko, a controversial film about American health care.
   The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, also included Lake of Fire, a highly-praised portrayal of the battle over abortion and Please Vote for Me, about children in China holding an election.
   Left out were a widely-touted documentary about the Apollo 11 mission, In the Shadow of the Moon, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters about a video game competition and The Devil Came on Horseback, about the war in Darfur.
   The list will be reduced to five from 15 by the Academy in January and a winner will be announced with other Oscars on Feb 24 in a telecast seen around the world.
   Among the war films on the list are Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight, which tracks how the United States got into the Iraq war and botched the job, according to the filmmaker.
   Also dealing with Iraq are Body of War, about a paralyzed soldier returning home and Operation homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience.