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Fahrenheit 9/11
2004
Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly controversial, and important documentary that won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Using actual footage and .. Read more
| Starring | Michael Moore |
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| Director | Michael Moore |
| Genres | Documentary |
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Fahrenheit 9/11
Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly controversial, and important documentary that won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Using actual footage and declassified documents, Moore takes a detailed look into political events both before and after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, beginning with the polarizing Supreme Court decision that ultimately gave the state of Florida and the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Moore reveals how the U.S. government helped the bin Laden family return to Saudi Arabia immediately after September 11, when all other flights were still grounded; and examines military recruiting techniques in such poor areas as his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. He even attempts to get congressmen to enlist their own sons and daughters into the military. The writer-director also visits with the troops, including at a VA hospital where soldiers are having second thoughts about America's involvement in Iraq, and spends time with a family whose eldest son is fighting in Iraq. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is a worthy successor to Moore's previous documentaries, ROGER & ME, THE BIG ONE, and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, once again shining a light on the past, present, and future of the US.
| Starring | Michael Moore |
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| Director | Michael Moore |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Oct 2004 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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"...A deeply emotional and highly important film that horrifies, informs and entertains in equal measure. Moore has launched a blistering Molotov cocktail of a film into the heart of his country. Excellent. A significant call-to-arms..."
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Michael Moore's documentary, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2004, is squarely and expertly aimed at George W... read more on Time Out
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83 out of 96 people found this review helpful
Powerful, moving, revealing...
When I went to see this film I knew it was going to be a very powerful film, but I never realised how powerful. A group of three left the film half way through it's showing swearing and shouting expletives at the cinema screen, clearly unable to take the message the film was conveying.
The rest of us who stayed got to hear details of how members of the Bin Laden family were gathered and flown out of the country while the rest of the air traffic was in post-911 lock-down, how the Bush family had prominent Saudi financeers including the Bin Laden family itself, how most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia yet there was no official investigation into this fact, how *none* of the hijackers were Iraqi despite the much-trumpeted 'connection' between Iraq and terrorism... how the artificial Iraq/Bin Laden 'terrorism' connection was sold to the American people in order to convince/deceive people into supporting an invasion of Iraq ... the list goes on and on.
If you consider yourself open-minded to alternative views, you simply HAVE to watch this film to get an alternative perspective to the one being peddled by Bush & Blair.
Although I'd have to admit the film is pretty biased, the views presented are legitimate and deserved coverage which has been unfortunately sorely lacking from both British and American news outlets.
It's a sad state of affairs that many of the facts presented in this documentary are not generally known and certainly haven't been given the kind of coverage and scrutiny they deserve. The Bush administration has had pretty much a 'free ride' in that sense, with the help of a complicit media, bouyed on by an exagerrated sense of panic and fear, created by the Bush administration (through constantly-changing 'Terror Alerts',etc) in order to keep both public and media in line.
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Dangerous
...I wouldnt be surprised if Moore was shot for this if he werent so big a star as a result of Columbine.He makes George Jr look like the total tw*t he is and furthers his propaganda against the administration with this piece of documentary film-making. Its easy to get carried away by his views (which we all have) and see whats really going on ... however, the best part of viewers already KNOW whats going on so therefore its like stand up comedy - we laugh because we agree with the guy, and its therefore life-affirming. Bill Hicks had been doing this for years and George Carlin before him. WE KNOW THE SCORE MIKE ... only Carlins funnier ....so its not so much gonna change the political outlook to the discerning viewer but it may change that of the young voter who only knows what he sees on TV ...although that being a diet of Britney Spears I feel Mike is butting his head against the political brick wall. The sheep you are preaching too worship Ronald McDonald and MTV... any conversions are a bonus...... 'now watch this drive'
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Moore tackles the economy
- 25 May 2009
Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore is working on his next expose - about the global economic meltdown. After attacking gun users in Bowling for Columbine, George W. Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11, and the U.S. healthcare system in Sicko, Moore is now turning his attention to the mega-rich who brought the world's economies to their knees. Moore - who won an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine - says, "The wealthy, at some point, decided they didn't have enough wealth. They wanted more - a lot... Read more
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