Bowling for Columbine
"The United States of America is notorious for [the] astronomical number of people killed by firearms [given that this is] a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, 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"--Internet movie database summary by Kenneth Chisholm, May 12, 2003. Includes an examination of a tragedy due to misuse of firearms in Moore's home town of Flint Michigan. Footage of and interviews with: Michael Moore, Denis Ames, Arthur A. Busch, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Barry Glassner (professor of sociology at the University of Southern California), Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, John Nichols, Chris Rock, Matt Stone, Salvador Allende, Michael Caldwell (Mt. Morris Township police detective), Dick Clark, Seth Collins, R. Budd.00000
DVD Video, English, 2003
Momentum Pictures, [London?], 2003