Obama's campaign for re-election (Hollywood style)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The campaign of U.S. President Barack Obama is giving a cinematic touch to his re-election with a new documentary about the first three years of the Democratic president in the White House.

Since the campaign was launched this week a short trailer of 17 minutes, "We've Traveled Road" ("The way we have come"), with dramatic music, and cinema-style interviews with some of Obama's top advisors.

Obama, whose ties to Hollywood have helped him raise money, l got an Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim to direct the film, and fellow Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks as narrator.

The 2006 Guggenheim documentary about the struggle of former Vice President Al Gore on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth," won the Oscar for best documentary.

The new film will premiere at the offices of the Obama campaign throughout the country on 15 March. It will Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama, former White House adviser David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel mayor of Chicago, the first chief of staff of the White House that was Obama.

In one of the most dramatic moments of the trailer, Biden has Obama's decision to attack the facilities in which Osama bin Laden lived in Pakistan. The al Qaeda leader was killed in the attack.

The Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said "Americans do not need a trailer or a documentary of 17 minutes to know what the president has achieved these past three years."

"Unfortunately, Americans know what are the achievements of Obama every day, who have led our country to higher unemployment, a record debt and higher prices of gasoline," he added.

For his part, White House spokesman Jay Carney explained that "we take every opportunity available to us to explain the president's policies, his position, to describe his vision of how to advance the country."

Obama has already used the documentary format above. In October 2008, issued an announcement about his campaign 30 minutes, shortly before his victory in November.