This documentary has good information some might never have known and others have forgotten. For example, it is good to remember the US Department of Justice (FBI) has a long history of curbing dissent (not just by legal means) and the CIA has at times seemed to pursue their own foreign policy and even engaged in war without congressional approval.
However, Mr. Stone's anti-anti-communist bias leads him to discount any real danger from either foreign or domestic communism. He also ignores the fact that the USSR was a repressive state under Lennin well before Stalin came to power.
At times the documentary is misleading. One example is the Florida vote count in the Bush/Gore election. Stone implies the Republican majority on the Supreme Court gave Bush the election. Actually, the Court simply instructed Florida to follow the law. And in the end George W. Bush had more votes than Al Gore.
Stone seems to want to see every major twentieth century leader as nearly perfect (Henry Wallace) or evil personified (the Bush's). I would prefer for a more even-handed appraisal seeing both greatness and flaws in people.
Informative but too biased.
However, Mr. Stone's anti-anti-communist bias leads him to discount any real danger from either foreign or domestic communism. He also ignores the fact that the USSR was a repressive state under Lennin well before Stalin came to power.
At times the documentary is misleading. One example is the Florida vote count in the Bush/Gore election. Stone implies the Republican majority on the Supreme Court gave Bush the election. Actually, the Court simply instructed Florida to follow the law. And in the end George W. Bush had more votes than Al Gore.
Stone seems to want to see every major twentieth century leader as nearly perfect (Henry Wallace) or evil personified (the Bush's). I would prefer for a more even-handed appraisal seeing both greatness and flaws in people.
Informative but too biased.
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