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Fahrenheit 9/11

2004 film directed by Michael Moore

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Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Released: 2004-06-25123 minDir: Michael MooreDocumentary

Cast

Michael Moore as Self
John Conyers as Self
Abdul Henderson as Self
Craig Unger as Self
George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage)

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Key facts

Directed by: Michael Moore
Written by: Michael Moore
Produced by: Michael Moore Jim Czarnecki Kathleen Glynn Monica Hampton Harvey Weinstein Bob Weinstein
Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush , Donald Rumsfeld
Narrated by: Michael Moore
Production companies: Dog Eat Dog Films Fellowship Adventure Group
Distributed by: Lions Gate Films , IFC Films
Release dates: May 17, 2004 ( 2004-05-17 ) ( Cannes ) June 25, 2004 ( 2004-06-25 ) (United States)
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: English, Arabic
Budget: $6 million

Key dates

Published: 2004

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Award: Palme d'Or
Genre: documentary film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English language
Main subject: September 11 attacks
Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Cast member: Tony Blair
Composer: Jeff Gibbs

Article

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring Michael Moore. The subjects of the film are the presidency of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the media's coverage of the war. In the film, Moore states that American corporate media were cheerleaders for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and did not provide an accurate or objective analysis of the rationale for the war and the resulting casualties there.

The title of the film alludes to Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was "The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns".