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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Annie Sundberg |
| Genre: |
Education/General Interest |
| Subgenre: |
Politics · Terrorism · Political · 9/11 · George W. Bush · World History/Culture · |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: 2-Disc Set |
| UPC: |
845637000531 |
| Release Date: |
2008 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 0min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Election Edition, 1hr 11min
UPC: 845637000500 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Naomi Wolf |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/03/2008, Stephen Holden): "[A]n unsettling documentary polemic about the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11..." |
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Adapted from progressive political author Naomi Wolf's book THE END OF AMERICA: A LETTER OF WARNING TO A YOUNG PATRIOT, the provocative film THE END OF AMERICA is the documentary work of directors Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern. Paralleling the Bush administration's post-9/11 measures to suppress perceived national security threats and political dissent, with disturbingly similar examples throughout modern history (Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Pinochet's Chile), the film mixes cautionary history with impassioned polemic. Interweaving snippets of a lecture given by Wolf in New York with interviews as well as television and web clips, the film outlines the 10 ways Wolf posits by which a democracy can easily and swiftly descend into the clutches of fascism. From sweeping legislations enacted to erode individual civil liberties such as the Patriot Act, to the systematic quashing of free speech and dissent, Wolf exposes the ways in which the culture of fear is perpetuated through state-sponsored media out... |
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