| Description: |
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. |
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Jacobo Arbenz Himself, President of Guatemala (archive footage) (as President Arbenz) Mike Bradley Himself, Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Arthur A. Busch Himself, County prosecutor, Flint, Michigan (as Arthur Busch) George Bush Himself (archive footage) (as Bush) George W. Bush Himself, President of the United States (archive footage) Michael Caldwell Himself, police detective Richard Castaldo Himself, Columbine victim Dick Clark Himself, restaurant owner Steve Davis Himself, deputy sheriff (archive footage) Ngo Dinh Diem Himself, President of South Vietnam (archive footage) (as President Diem) Byron Dorgan Himself (archive footage) Mike Epstein Shopper in Mall Joe Farmer Himself, superintendent of schools (archive footage) Mike Fasolo Corporate Criminal (DVD only) (archive footage) Denny Fennell Himself, home security consultant Barry Glassner Himself, author of "The Culture of Fear" (as Prof. Barry Glassner) John Harris Himself (voice) Dick Herlan Himself (as Richard Herlan) Charlton Heston Himself, actor / NRA president Jeremy Hicks Himself, suspended student for wearing kilts (archive footage) Ernest F. Hollings Himself (archive footage) (as Senator Fritz Hollings) Jimmie Hughes Herself, principal of Buell Elementary School Dick Hurlin Himself, former producer of "Cops" Amanda Lamante Herself, Columbine student Mary Lorenz Herself, K-Mart official Marilyn Manson Himself, entertainer Daniel Mauser Himself (archive footage) Tom Mauser Himself, father of victim Evan McCollum Himself, Lockheed Martin public relations Timothy McVeigh Himself, Oklahoma City bomber (archive footage) Carey McWilliams Himself, blind gun owner (archive footage) Gerald Miller Himself, Welfare-to-Work creator (archive footage) Michael Moore Himself / Narrator Mohammed Mossadegh Himself, Prime Minister of Iran (archive footage) (as Prime Minister Mossadeq) James Nichols Himself, brother of Terry Nichols Terry Nichols Himself, Oklahoma City bombing accomplice (archive footage) Manuel Noriega Himself, President of Panama (archive footage) Tamarla Owens Herself, mother of boy who shot girl (archive footage) Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Himself, Shah of Iran (archive footage) Robert J. Pickell Himself, sheriff of Flint, Michigan (as Sheriff Robert Pickell) Augusto Pinochet Himself, Chilean dictator (archive footage) Jeff Rossen Himself, FOX reporter (archive footage) David Satcher Himself (archive footage) (as Dr. David Satcher) Nicole Schlief Herself David Smith Himself, Sarah's husband (voice) (archive footage) Susan Smith Herself, child murderess (archive footage) Matt Stone Himself, former Columbine student |
