Product Details

• Actors: Howard Zinn, Michael Ruppert, Michael Parenti
• Directors: Christine Rose
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Blue Moose Films
• DVD Release Date: September 11, 2004
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00061LKAC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,129 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Liberty Bound" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Illinois Times, August 26, 2004

"Liberty Bound is a powerful assessment of the growing challenges to our democratic principles...an excellent debut for Rose."

Product Description

A US Citizen's journey of discovery into the lies, oppression, and corruption that has invaded her country since 9/11.

LIBERTY BOUND takes an entertaining look at America’s ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This film investigates historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric.

First-time filmmaker Christine Rose set out to answer these questions on her quest across America: • What is fascism and why does that word increasingly appear in the alternative and foreign media when referencing the United States?
• Are we losing our civil liberties?
• Is our very constitution and Bill of Rights in jeopardy?
• How much of the daily news is well-disguised propaganda?

Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, LIBERTY BOUND explores the state of the union and its ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and having a philosophical discussion on a train.

LIBERTY BOUND leaves us with the question: "Is the United States bound for liberty – or does it just have liberty bound?

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Customer Reviews

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Documentary from a First Time Filmmaker, September 20, 2004

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R. D. Waters "rdwaters" (Newton, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liberty Bound (DVD)

Feel safer after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security? Feel okay about the USAPATRIOT Act and what it could be used for? Do you believe you really know what your government is doing? If you answered "no" to any of these questions then this film is for you.

First time filmmaker Christine Rose has created a powerful documentary about the post-9/11 state of the nation. She starts out traveling the country in search of the truth about our post-9/11 increased security measures and individual liberties. What starts out as a simple set of questions turns into a damning indictment of the heavy-handed reaction of the Bush administration to the 9/11 attacks.

Rose tackles issues about 9/11 and the new powers of the FBI and Homeland Security Department that Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" barely touched upon. The questions asked are excellent food for thought. How do we live in a more secure state without giving up our liberties? Is the Constitution still relevant? Can we trust the investigative powers of the FBI and CIA after the complete failure of the system on 9/11 and the run up to the Iraq war? Moore indicts Saudi Arabia and its close ties to the Bush family, but Rose suggests that there may be more to the story. My take? There's always more to the story when it comes to politics and policy.

Rose makes excellent use of interview material with respected historian Howard Zinn, author Michael Parenti, and investigative journalist Michael C. Ruppert. It should be noted that Rose completed her film before the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission, but that does not make any of her or her interviewee insights irrelevant. The conclusion of the film is sobering and thoughtful. Rose dares to raise disturbing questions about fascism in the U.S., secrecy in government, and the loss of our liberties. The questions raised should provoke hours of discussion with your friends and family and should generate a few letters to your Congressional representatives. I look forward to Rose's next documentary.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Independent Film, October 15, 2004

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Richard T. Sadler "Richard Sadler" (Memphis, TN.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liberty Bound (DVD)

You have to hand it to Christine Rose. She saw the problems developing in our country since 9-11 was exploited for political purposes and decided to make a movie about it. Travelling across the country, she has great interviews with Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and others. She finds people who have been victimized by the Patriot Act. Altogether a very accomplished film from a first time director. Was very popular when it was shown in France.

One of the most harrowing segments is a real time voice recording of the air traffic controllers trying to contact the doomed flight that crashed in Pennsylvannia on 9-11. The screen is blank except for the captioned voices of the controllers and finally, a terrorist voice is heard. That section will haunt you. This movie shows what one determined person (working with friends and relatives) can accomplish. Bravo!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Patriotic Effort, October 15, 2004

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SRV "Texas Flood" (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Liberty Bound (DVD)

Ms. Rose, (this is her first feature documentary attempt funded by herself and her husband) comes off here like a real "patriot" in the purest sense. The questions Ms. Rose asks require us to self reflect . Her point is simple and direct. A nation gets the government it deserves. In "Liberty Bound" we are reminded that we probably deserve better. As Howard Zinn states, with all the power we have, to have used it to benefit the few in the way that has happened is just disgraceful. After seeing "Liberty Bound" it's hard to disagree.