Category: Documentary Films

America’s Culture of fear

A perfect example of Moore’s disingenuous explorations for truth is when he ironically interviews and cites the work of USC Professor Barry Glassner, whose book The Culture of Fear attacks the media for sensationalizing incidents of bad news while ignoring the bigger picture. One of the book’s primary examples is extensive media coverage of school […]

Murder of Kayla Rolland

We begin with hearing 911 calls reporting that the six-year-old little girl had been shot at the Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Flint, Michigan, on February 29, 2000. We see Moore talking to the principal. He refers to the six-year-old boy killer as one who “had found a gun at his uncle’s house because […]

Willie Horton Ad

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A Brief History of America

Bowling for Columbine has within it an original animated cartoon which purports to outline the ways that racial fear from white men who feared everything from the time the Pilgrims arrived has shaped U.S. sensibility. Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified on purpose to make its points – but the scene is also highly […]

Lockheed Martin Missiles

Bowling contains a sequence filmed at a Lockheed-Martin manufacturing facility near Columbine. Moore places a Lockheed Martin executive, right in front of a mammoth, menacing-looking rocket and asks: “So you don’t think our kids say to themselves, ‘Gee, you know, Dad goes off to the factory every day and, you know, he builds missiles. These […]