Product Details

• Actors: Morgan Freeman, Paul Begala, Sidney Blumenthal, David Brock, John Camp
• Directors: Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry
• Writers: Joe Conason, Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry, Gene Lyons
• Producers: Adrienne Crow, Amy Greenspun
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002IQK9U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,669 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Hunting of the President" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Documentary on how the political power of the media and the power of special interest groups have affected political campaigns, specifically the political career of Bill Clinton.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 24-JAN-2006
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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282 of 320 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read the book and see the movie, July 30, 2004

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MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunting of the President (DVD)

One reason I recommend this DVD is simply because it shows how the media has become a big business, driven by ratings and not by unbiased hard facts. How the media goes with the hype and looks at stories more as red meat rather than media worthy. The movie opened this week in Sacramento, CA at the Crest Theatre, and I hope it comes to Stockton CA which is easier for me to get to for a return showing. And its a college town.

It is also a cautionary tale of a movie (read the book for more in-depth reasoning) of how special interests can have a seek and destroy at any cost mentality. Whitewater being the case in point. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO) the cost of the independent counsel's 4 1/2-year inquiry of the president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton came to $39.2 million. And they got nothing.

Susan McDougal, is shown (correctly) as being targeted by right wing extremists who assumed that being from Arkansas that she could be brought down easily, and that it must have come as a surprise when she stood her ground and being innocent was willing to go to jail for contempt rather than hell for lying.

And the movie shows both sides fairly in my opinion, with the main focus being on the evils of what actually happened and a warning IMO that if it could happen to the Clintons, beware it could happen to anyone. The book and then the movie made me dig out my copy of Niccolo Machiavelli's THE PRINCE, which is must reading for any thinking person.

Now this is what I find interesting as a moderate voter, the conservative hacks went after Hillary because she had an initial
investment of 1k when she did some trading of commodities. Yet the whole dang Bush family has made millions off of a simple friendship with the Saudi Royal family with the payment being made in blood by our patriotic military men and women. Yet where is the outcry?

And for those who think the media is liberal one need only read the book and see the movie to see that when the Clintons were basically exonerated by the final Special Prosecutors findings that this was reported in few if any major newspaper.

345 of 403 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VRWC, September 9, 2004

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B. Whitley (Harrisburg, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunting of the President (DVD)

Remember when Hillary Clinton was mocked for claiming that she and Bill were the victims of a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?" Well, it turns out, there really was a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and The Hunting of the President names names (as well as dates, places and times). When you think about the millions wasted on investigating Clinton's sex life, and see the rampant misdeeds going on, unvestigated, in the Bush White House (hello, Halliburton), it's enough to make your blood boil.

46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A mix of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Josef K., September 28, 2004

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isala "Isabel and Lars" (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hunting of the President (DVD)

Like Josef K. Clinton was drawn into a prolonged, surreal, and nightmarish trial. Like Macbeth, every time he thoguht he had made it clean Starr threw in an extra surprise. In the background Gingrich, Murdoch, and Scaife were playing the parts of the witches on the moor, pulling all strings of his destiny. And like Hamlet, he must have felt like he was fighting a sea of misery!
They could not have done without the media so obediently jumping on any juicy piece of gossip.
This film is biased, but everything is backed up by facts. Why can't it be biased? The present adminsitration is not well-known for their strict adherence to facts and fairness.
The sad thing is that the media moghuls will order the networks to give this film the silent treatment, when everyone should she it, and start asking questions why there are no similar investigations into the activities of the present administration.