Bowling for Columbine (2002)

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Michael Moore

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Michael Moore
Self - Narrator

Salvador Allende
Self - President of Chile

Mike Bradley
Self - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Arthur A. Busch
Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan

George Bush
Self

George W. Bush
Self

Richard Castaldo
Self - Columbine Victim

Dick Clark
Self

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Not the NRA's favourite film

15 years, 10 months ago at Aug 2 21:38

Hourglass Women

1 vote

Of course, Michael Moore is over the top but I generally agree with his overall thrust. Far too many innocents get shot when gun ownership is rampant.

My favorite documentary

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Nowadays, we don’t hear much from Michael Moore but there was a time when the guy was the most successful documentary maker in the world. Basically, it is with this movie that he got his breakthrough and, even though I always enjoyed his work, this movie was much better than anything he has ever done before or after his career. Indeed, the whole thing was just fascinating to behold and I would g... read more

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mazardeus

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What a brilliant documentary filled with excellent messages on America's modern issue on guns. This is still relevant even in what is going on today. The beginning of trying to create a resolution may start with this film. It is sad in 2015 that there are lots of citizens that support the NRA's psychotic belief that more guns will lower the rate at which school shootings occur.

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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 cu ... (more)

Release date: 15 November 2002
UPC: 027616882264

Tags: Documentary (62), 2002 (17), Gun Control (15), Political (13), Guns (11), Violence (10), 2000s (10), Columbine (10), Canada (9), Colorado (9), Michael Moore (9), Nra (9), Activism (8), Satire (7), Usa (6), Comedy (5), High School (5), School Shooting (5), History (4), Disturbing (4)

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