Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is the Academy Award Winning documentary by film maker Michael Moore that while documenting The Columbine High School massacre of 1999 looks at Gun violence and control in The United States. In an almost comical opening scene Moore takes up the extraordinary offer from a bank in Michigan to get a Free Gun when you open an account ! The film goes on to try and answer why America has the highest gun related deaths, is the answer simply because guns and ammunition are so freely available ?  Quoted in the film "..if a owning a gun makes you safer America should be the safest place on earth..."

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Slacker Uprising: Captain Mike Across America

Slacker Uprising is a documentary by renowned film maker Michael Moore, the film is a renamed and updated version of a documentary he had shown a year earlier called Captain Mike Across America. Not for the first time George W. Bush received focus from a Moore documentary, but the main focus was on getting the youth and slackers out to vote in the (at the time) upcoming presidential election.

In the documentary we see Moore travel across America visiting collages and other youth venues in an effort to get young people to use the power of their votes. It was building to be one of the closest Presidential elections in American History so Moore even offers gifts (Albeit Underwear and Noodles) to those who promise to shut off cellphones and computers for an hour and use the right many peoples are not afforded.

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Capitalism : A Love Story

Capitalism : A Love Story is a documentary about Capitalism in general but with a focus on the recent Financial Crisis. The effects of the crisis on ordinary people and looking at the Capitalist systems success or lack of it through the ages.

A Michael Moore documentary in which he again puts the focus not so much on the numbers but the people hit the hardest. Moore looks to Wall Street and how they were gambling with peoples futures in a greed led business environment. Released in 2009 Capitalism : A Love Story followed people losing their jobs, their houses and possessions while it seemed the people at the top were going unharmed and unpunished.But the main question in this documentary is about Capitalism and it's ability to widen the gap between those who have and those who have not.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

Fahrenheit 9/11 is one of the most popular documentaries ever made and the highest grossing documentary ever. In 2004 Michael Moore turned his attention to George Bush, his elections, his connections and his post September 11 war on terror. In a packed two hours some of the questions raised are How did Bush win an election that was being called for his opponent Al Gore, did the Bush administration use 9/11 to scare the people into giving government more power and were are all the weapons of mass destruction.

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