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The End of America: Director's Cut [DVD]

Naomi Wolf (Actor), Ricki Stern;Annie Sundberg (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
IMDb7.4/10.0
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Genre Military & War
Format Director's Cut, DVD, Color, NTSC
Contributor Ricki Stern;Annie Sundberg, Naomi Wolf
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 13 minutes

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Product Description

This two-disc director's cut is jam packed with never-before-seen bonus material, including: an exclusive interview with Anthony Romero, president of the ACLU; a detailed interview with Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst; a featurette with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, and much more. Along with the rest of America, best-selling author and feminist Naomi Wolf was overwhelmed by the swell of conflicting information and the sudden march to war after 9/11. Wolf looked to history to help her understand the dramatic changes she believed she was witnessing, and discovered the disturbing similarities between post-9/11 US policy and that of historically fascist regimes such as Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. Wolf authored her next book, THE END OF AMERICA, which demonstrated that the United States was on a remarkably certain path toward ending democracy. Taking the thesis of her book to the streets, Wolf set out on a national tour to discuss the evolution of America from a functional democracy into a closed, fear-driven society with a terrifying absence of due process. In this profound and eye-opening film, Award-winning veteran documentarians Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT) accompany Wolf as she discusses America's dangerous passage towards becoming a society of fear and surveillance, and expresses her plea to restore our nation's most cherished values.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ricki Stern;Annie Sundberg
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Director's Cut, DVD, Color, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 13 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 20, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Naomi Wolf
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Indiepix
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001IX4CC0
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

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3.8 out of 5 stars
42 global ratings

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Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars Must watch this..
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2024
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The author has come to realize that the issues she was concerned about when this was made are not perpetrated by one party but by the lack of awareness of people in general on both sides of the political parties. I contribute her shortsightedness to just making the dots connect for the first time.. Lots of people do it.
You should put this on the required watch list. Get a copy while you still can.
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R. Rotondi
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth buying (and buying for friends as well!)
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2009
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I really can't say it better than Stephen Holden did in the New York Times review on this documentary in December 2008. This documentary will stand as one of the important assessments of the past eight years in America's history~and America's fall from grace. With true skill and intelligence the filmmakers create an involving mosaic about the Bush regime while placing it within the context of previous international political regimes who used similar tactics to manipulate history--and peoples' minds. Ms. Wolf is the perfect guide through the complicated historical events that she persuasively proves were a role model for tactics utilized within President Bush's administration.
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From The New York Times, 12/3/08: (partial review, go to [...] for entire review by Mr. Holden).

"When Laws and Liberties Test Each Other's Limits"

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: December 3, 2008
"The End of America," an unsettling documentary polemic about the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11, brings up matters many of us would rather not contemplate in the middle of a financial crisis and on the eve of a new administration. Federal laws enacted during the last seven years that threaten our constitutional rights, it reminds us, remain in effect.

The pointedly inflammatory film, adapted from Naomi Wolf's book "The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," compares the Bush administration's attempts to discourage dissent and to wield increasingly unchecked power to the events preceding the establishment of 20th-century dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Chile and elsewhere. Without explicitly invoking the word, it implies that since 2001 the United States has drifted toward fascism in the name of fighting terror.
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Thang Tran
3.0 out of 5 stars very biased
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2009
I hate the Bush administration as much as anyone, thank god he's outta there, but this film is just way too biased. I had a feeling that the author was cherry picking events and give it her own interpretation that supports a vastly biased agenda, she's determined to paint the Bush administration as evil as Hitler's Nazis reign. While I do think that it was a dumb, insensitive administration and had a wrong approach to how it would govern this country and poorly weaved its representation to the rest of the world, I don't think they were as evil as the film portrayed them to be. It was stretching it a bit too far, and that downplayed its credibility a bit for me. Even though I wanted to like it, my skepticism changed only a little by the time the movie was over.

However, there were good moments in the film though, and I found myself nodding along side it at certain parts. I wouldn't say that this is a "must-see", but it's definitely more thought-provoking and engaging than your average small-town theater flick.

Not sure why all the attention was on Blackwater while Dick Cheney's Halliburton got off scotch-free, and it was just as shady as Blackwater, if not more.
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R C
1.0 out of 5 stars not very good in my opinion.
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016
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Didn't care for this dvd as there was just a leftist slant and negativity to it.
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Zarathustra
5.0 out of 5 stars Naomi Wolf Gives An Excellent Presentation On The Bush Team
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2013
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On the second DVD you will find interviews in depth from many people who were involved with the abuses in Iraq and in secret locations where prisoners were tortured, which the Bush Administration continues to deny. Comparisons are made with Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. The Patriot Act permits serious abuses which should not be allowed in a formerly free society.
Highly recommended.
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peacefullwarrior
2.0 out of 5 stars A waste of time!
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2013
Despite her good intentions, Wolf's interpretation of events are taken out of context with no historical accuracy. A waste of time!
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Lisa M. Bennett
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014
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Informative
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R.T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good video a lot of good information provided and she ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014
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Good video a lot of good information provided and she rounds things out to make it understandable to everyone watching the video
She tell's it like it is rather you like it or not.... and I liked it.
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Wally S
5.0 out of 5 stars The End of America DVD
Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2013
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A chilling look into the degeneration of the United States into
a totalitarian state. A point by point comparison of the current US government/laws
and similar laws that were implemented by the worst Totalitarian regimes.
Required viewing for anyone who doubts the decline of the American empire.
Proof that powerful corporations and individuals are manipulating laws to further their
own objectives. Anyone who still believes that America is the lnad of Freedom is sadly
misinformed.
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wyldwyrd
5.0 out of 5 stars IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2009
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I am heartened that this information is percolating into mainstream consciousness, and bless the brave people who are not afraid to speak out against the tide of fascism that is taking over the world.
Please watch this, and ensure as many of your tribe watch it as possible. It is all coldly factual, coherent and starkly truthful.
So many people are still asleep, unaware and unsuspecting, many willfully so.
But as the months go by, more and more are waking up to reality, or being forcibly awakened by the actions of the Elite. And many people are having their worst fears confirmed by such information as is contained in this documentary.
Unless you are determinedly blind and deaf, you must be aware that democracy, human rights and civil liberties are being eroded in the so-called free world at a terrifying rate, not only in those distant, war-torn lands you watch on the evening news. You can no longer count on your cocoon being inviolate.
For the sake of your children, and the world they will have to live in, you must become informed of the truth, no matter how frightening it is, and you must become active in opposing those whose agendas have no care for you or your children...or the health of your world.
Naomi Wolf isn't the kind of human the mindless media love to portray as a deranged conspiracy theorist - everything she has to say is irrefutably true and self-evident.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
And it is high time we remembered that we, the 'ordinary' people, have power. And it is high time we took that power back, for the sake of all the children everywhere.
Wouldn't you love to live in a world where children weren't murdered each and every day?
Well, stand up and make it so.
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Recycleteen
5.0 out of 5 stars The End of America
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2010
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First off I am absolutely gobsmacked that there are only TWO reviews as I write this. It states in ways that I cannot just how far we have to go to wake up to the world around us. The film is very clear in its approach, direct and resists the urge to demonise. Nothing in it is earth shattering, or really new, but the way it makes its point is; its not trying to convince, but get you to think. There are no easy targets, or answers, just the call to take repsonsibilty for what is done in our name. Her admission that she is afraid adds to the tension of the piece; although her admission that she will shut up just when voices need to be raised shows how well propoganda and coercion work. As she implies in the film, when thinking for yourself makes you a 'conspiracy nut' and facts are for 'geeks', we all need to take a deep breath. Definetly worth watching.
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