This hour long documentary from 2003 follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.
These are the hard-hitting reports that have been seen in films like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, broadcast internationally on BBC Newsnight television, and are found in Palast's international bestselling book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Filmakers description: A brief but carefully presented and supported criminal indictment of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Richard Myers, and Condoleeza Rice for murder in the events of 9-11, presenting all the best evidence in a concise but powerful manner. It includes Larry Silverstein's admission that the explosives were used; and Norman Mineta's identification of Dick Cheney as the person who gave the order not to scramble jets, or fire any weapons in defense of the Pentagon.
Released in 1995, and using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s in SPIN.
Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
Unprecedented Voter fraud - well that's something that occurs only in backward third world nations, right? The evidence presented by this documentary about the 2000 US presidential elections might make you question the nature of democracy.
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election pt.1
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election pt.2
Directors description: This fall (2006), the midterm elections will be among the most fiercely contested in American history. And, you can count on one thing. One man will be calling the shots. He will be the key Republican strategist. He will do whatever it takes to insure that the Republican majority is still intact in November
BUSH'S BRAIN chronicles the life and work of Karl Rove, currently the Senior Advisor to President Bush. When we began shooting BUSH'S BRAIN, Karl Rove was unknown to most of us. He was the most powerful man America had never heard of. He was the "Wizard of Oz" behind the curtain of the Bush Presidency.
Now, in 2006, things have certainly changed. Most Americans now know the name "Karl Rove". They probably even know him by the nickname "BUSH'S BRAIN". They know he has engineered two Presidential victories for George W. Bush. They know he is smart. They know he is effective. They may even think of him as ruthless. Machiavellian.
But, even now, what most Americans don't know or understand… is the "Rove M.O.". They don't know how Karl Rove actually operates.
Our film, BUSH'S BRAIN, is a primer on how Karl Rove operates. If you want to understand what happened in the elections of 2000 and 2004, you should see our film. If you want to know what will probably happen this fall, you must see our film.
For those who saw BUSH'S BRAIN, the Swift Boat Ads came as no surprise. They were vintage Rove. You attack your opponent's strength, not his weakness. And you cast deep shadows of doubt -- which can't be refuted in time for the election.
The same technique was used in the 2000 primary election against Senator John McCain. Rove turned McCain's heroic ordeal as a prisoner of war into a liability. Because of his years of imprisonment, McCain was said to be "mentally unfit" to be president. Sound familiar?
We urge you to buy BUSH'S BRAIN, share it with friends and relatives, use it for meetings, discussion groups, family debates. It provides the deep background on the Rove-Bush strategy. It will help you understand what is coming this fall.
Thank you,
Michael and Joe The Directors of BUSH'S BRAIN
This video was released in May 2006.
Bush's Brain: A Documentary About Karl Rove part one
Bush's Brain: A Documentary About Karl Rove part two
Bush's Brain: A Documentary About Karl Rove part three
American Vice-President Dick Cheney has walked the corridors of world power for three decades. Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form.
Elected for a second term, he continues to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgement could be.
ORIGINALLY AIRED: October 6, 2004 on CBC-TV
the fifth estate: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
