Summary of the cloacked history of the land of the free.its the first part,never as good as the book but watchable for history nerds like the grumpy old man.
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ops-5253515 May 2021
A Propaganda History of the United States
The_Real_Review7 September 2023
Negative reviews of this film are actively being suppressed as I am now on my sixth revision.
Political Science Professor Howard Zinn attempts to trash American history with his cherry picked vignettes of the poor and the uneducated. For Mr. Zinn preaches wealth redistribution propaganda and does so in the guise of teaching 'history". You see Mr. Zinn is going to teach you all the "hidden" episodes of American history that will make you so enlightened, you will reevaluate the meaning of life, leave America and run off to a communist utopia like North Korea. He failed to achieve his goal.
A People's History of the United States is an embarrassment to any serious historian by telling historical events in the most biased way as possible. Any serious scholar of history of even the average armchair historians will have heard about all of these events before but in an objective form not taken out of context to suit this anti-American polemic. Zinn literally holds contempt for the founding fathers , what more do I need to say?
This documentary apparently attempts to pull the best snippets from Zinn's work for maximum effect but instead it only reinforces that the emperor (Zinn) has no clothes. For instance a big deal is made about anarchist Alexander Berkman who was rightfully convicted of the attempted murder of Henry Clay Frick whom is painted as some civilian mass murderer of union members on strike. No mention is made that the strikers attempted to use mob rule to keep a private business closed, prevent people from going to work or move freely about a town in the United States. The strikers cheered for the murdering of the security hired for the business, intimidated local law enforcement from enforcing the law and were finally stopped only by the state's militia.
This is literally one of the most cringe inducing documentaries I have ever watched in my life.
Political Science Professor Howard Zinn attempts to trash American history with his cherry picked vignettes of the poor and the uneducated. For Mr. Zinn preaches wealth redistribution propaganda and does so in the guise of teaching 'history". You see Mr. Zinn is going to teach you all the "hidden" episodes of American history that will make you so enlightened, you will reevaluate the meaning of life, leave America and run off to a communist utopia like North Korea. He failed to achieve his goal.
A People's History of the United States is an embarrassment to any serious historian by telling historical events in the most biased way as possible. Any serious scholar of history of even the average armchair historians will have heard about all of these events before but in an objective form not taken out of context to suit this anti-American polemic. Zinn literally holds contempt for the founding fathers , what more do I need to say?
This documentary apparently attempts to pull the best snippets from Zinn's work for maximum effect but instead it only reinforces that the emperor (Zinn) has no clothes. For instance a big deal is made about anarchist Alexander Berkman who was rightfully convicted of the attempted murder of Henry Clay Frick whom is painted as some civilian mass murderer of union members on strike. No mention is made that the strikers attempted to use mob rule to keep a private business closed, prevent people from going to work or move freely about a town in the United States. The strikers cheered for the murdering of the security hired for the business, intimidated local law enforcement from enforcing the law and were finally stopped only by the state's militia.
This is literally one of the most cringe inducing documentaries I have ever watched in my life.
Incredible !
bricegravelle8 November 2018
What a mess
joshuapovill2 December 2023
Howard Zinn's book was a revelation. But, this "documentary" appears to have been made by junior high school film students. I can't tell if it was officially licensed by Zinn's estate but, I hope not, since it just brings shame to his enterprise. It's hard to even make out the main thesis of the film. But, to the extent that it is Zinn's ideas, it would not convince any viewer who didn't come into the movie already lionizing Zinn. And it fails even as an interesting story in its own right. I just noticed that the movie also was released in French and it is possible that some of its halting and stilted storytelling is a result of poor translation. Nonetheless, it remains a waste of time. And worse, for those who have not read Zinn's book, a laughably pathetic film version of an important work that can only bring disrepute upon Zinn's legacy.
History Repeats Itself Today
zaniac-6726814 June 2022
Our oligarchs are still in charge of the government. Howard showed how the one percent controlled all of the money and it continues today. Zuckerberg, Gates, Soros and Bloomberg are now financing the democrat power grab of the 2020s. Their attempt to disarm American citizens with scare tactics of mass shootings and leftist district attorneys allowing uncontrollable violence in the cities is just a repeat of what occurred over one hundred years ago by Rockefeller, Carnegie and the rest of the wealthiest industrialists. This time they've begun stealing elections through mail-in ballots. They want us to believe that an 80 year old dementia patient hiding in his basement received 12 million more votes than the most popular president in 30 years, Barack Obama.
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