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Michael Moore

January 20, 2023

For other people named Michael Moore, see Michael Moore (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Michael Moorer.

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and left-wing activist. His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism.[1]

Michael Moore
Moore during the Venice Film Festival in September 2009
Born
Michael Francis Moore

(1954-04-23) April 23, 1954 (age 68)
Davison, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan–Flint
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • author
  • activist
Years active1976–present
Spouse
Kathleen Glynn
​
​
(m. 1991; div. 2014)​
Websitemichaelmoore.com

Moore won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, which examined the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and the overall gun culture of the United States. He also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which earned $119,194,771 to become the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time.[2] The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes film festival, and was subject to intense controversy.[3] His documentary Sicko, which examines health care in the United States, is one of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries as of 2020.[2] In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections.[4] He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical news-magazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical show. In 2018, he released his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and the subsequent presidency of Donald Trump. He was executive producer of Planet of the Humans (2019), a documentary about the environmental movement.

Moore's works criticize topics such as globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, Presidents Bill Clinton,[5] George W. Bush and Donald Trump,[6] the Iraq War, the American health care system and capitalism overall. In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.[7] Critics have labeled Moore himself as a propagandist,[8] and his films as propaganda.[9][10][11][12]

Early life

Michael Francis Moore was born outside Flint, Michigan, and raised in Davison by parents Helene Veronica (née Wall) (1921–2002),[13] a secretary, and Francis Richard "Frank" Moore, (1921–2014) an automotive assembly-line worker.[14][15][16][17] At that time, the city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked. His uncle LaVerne was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the Flint sit-down strike.[18]

Moore was brought up in a traditional Catholic home,[19] and has Irish, and smaller amounts of Scottish and English, ancestry.[20][21] Some of his ancestors were Quakers.[21][22] He attended parochial St. John's Elementary School for primary school and later attended St. Paul's Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan, for a year.[14][23][24][25][26] He then attended Davison High School, where he was active in both drama and debate,[27] graduating in 1972. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. At the age of 18, he was elected to the Davison school board.[14] At the time he was the youngest person elected to office in the U.S., as the minimum age to hold public office had just been lowered to 18.[28]

Career

Journalism

Moore dropped out of the University of Michigan–Flint following his first year of school (where he wrote for the student newspaper The Michigan Times). At 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine The Flint Voice, which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it expanded to cover the entire state. Popstar Harry Chapin is credited with being the reason the magazine was able to start by performing benefit concerts and donating the money to Moore. Moore crept backstage after a concert to Chapin's dressing room and convinced him to do a concert and give the money to him. Chapin subsequently did a concert in Flint every year.[29] In 1986, when Moore became the editor of Mother Jones, a liberal political magazine, The Michigan Voice was shut down by the investors and he moved to California.[citation needed]

 
Moore at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009

After four months at Mother Jones, Moore was fired. Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard reported this was for refusing to print an article by Paul Berman that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua.[30] Moore refused to run the article, believing it to be inaccurate. "The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years."[31]

Moore believes that Mother Jones fired him because of the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. He responded by putting laid-off GM worker Ben Hamper (who was also writing for the same magazine at the time) on the magazine's cover, leading to his termination. Moore sued for wrongful dismissal, and settled out of court for $58,000, providing him with seed money for his first film, Roger & Me.[32]

Directing, producing and screenwriting

Roger & Me

The 1989 film Roger & Me was Moore's first documentary about what happened to Flint, Michigan, after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico where the workers were paid lower wages. The "Roger" is Roger B. Smith, former CEO and President of General Motors. Harlan Jacobson, editor of Film Comment magazine, said that Moore muddled the chronology in Roger & Me to make it seem that events that took place before G.M.'s layoffs were a consequence of them.[33] Critic Roger Ebert defended Moore's handling of the timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that had less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a satiric viewpoint.[34]

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

Moore made a follow-up 23-minute documentary film, Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint, that aired on PBS in 1992. It is based on Roger & Me. The film's title refers to Rhonda Britton, a Flint, Michigan resident featured in both the 1989 and 1992 films, who sells rabbits as either pets or meat.[35]

Canadian Bacon

Moore's 1995 satirical film Canadian Bacon features a fictional U.S. president (played by Alan Alda) engineering a fake war with Canada in order to boost his popularity.[36] The film is also one of the last featuring Canadian actor John Candy.[36] Some commentators in the media felt the film was influenced by the Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove.[36]

The Big One

Moore's 1997 film The Big One documents the tour publicizing Moore's book Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, in which he criticizes mass layoffs despite record corporate profits. Among others, he targets Nike for outsourcing shoe production to Indonesia.[37]

Bowling for Columbine

His documentary Bowling for Columbine, released in 2002, probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States, taking as a starting point the Columbine High School massacre of 1999. Bowling for Columbine won the Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[38] and France's César Award as the Best Foreign Film. In the United States, it won the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It also enjoyed great commercial and critical success for a film of its type, and has since gone on to be considered one of the greatest documentary films of all-time.[39][40][41][42] At the time of Columbine's release, it was the highest-grossing mainstream-released documentary (a record now held by Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11).[2]

Fahrenheit 9/11

Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11, released in 2004, examines America in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, particularly the record of the George W. Bush Administration and alleged links between the families of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Fahrenheit was awarded the Palme d'Or,[43] the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956. Moore later announced that Fahrenheit 9/11 would not be in consideration for the 2005 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, but instead for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He stated he wanted the movie to be seen by a few million more people via television broadcast prior to Election Day. According to Moore, "Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical release", and since the November 2 election was fewer than nine months after the film's release, it would have been disqualified for the Documentary Oscar.[44] Regardless, Fahrenheit did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The title of the film alludes to the classic book Fahrenheit 451 about a future totalitarian state in which books are banned; according to the book, paper begins to burn at 451 °F (233 °C). The pre-release subtitle of the film confirms the allusion: "The temperature at which freedom burns."[citation needed]

As of August 2012, Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking in over US$200 million worldwide, including United States box office revenue of almost US$120 million.[2] In February 2011, Moore sued producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein for US$2.7 million in unpaid profits from the film, claiming they used "Hollywood accounting tricks" to avoid paying him the money.[45] In February 2012, Moore and the Weinsteins informed the court that they had settled their dispute.[46]

Sicko

 
Moore at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival receiving a standing ovation for Sicko

Moore directed the 2007 film, Sicko, about the American health care system, focusing particularly on the managed-care and pharmaceutical industries. At least four major pharmaceutical companies—Pfizer, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline—ordered their employees not to grant any interviews or assist Moore.[47][48][49] According to Moore in a letter on his website, "roads that often surprise us and lead us to new ideas—and challenge us to reconsider the ones we began with have caused some minor delays." The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2007, receiving a lengthy standing ovation, and was released in the U.S. and Canada on June 29, 2007.[50] The film is currently ranked the twelfth highest grossing documentary of all time[2] and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.[51]

Captain Mike Across America and Slacker Uprising

Moore takes a look at the politics of college students in what he calls "Bush Administration America" with Captain Mike Across America, which was shot during Moore's 62-city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election.[52][53] The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2007.[54] It was later re-edited by Moore into Slacker Uprising and released for free on the internet on September 23, 2008.[55]

Capitalism: A Love Story

Released on September 23, 2009, Capitalism: A Love Story looks at the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the U.S. economy during the transition between the outgoing Bush Administration and the incoming Obama Administration. Addressing a press conference at its release, Moore said, "Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."[56]

Where to Invade Next

Where to Invade Next examines the benefits of progressive social policies in various countries. The film had its premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[57] Godfrey Cheshire, writing for Roger Ebert.com, wrote that "Moore's surprising and extraordinarily winning Where to Invade Next will almost surely cast his detractors at Fox News and similar sinkholes into consternation".[58]

Michael Moore in TrumpLand

In Michael Moore in TrumpLand, Moore talks about the 2016 Presidential Election Campaigns. It is a solo performance showing Moore on stage speaking to a seated audience. The film consists of Moore's opinions of the candidates and highlights the Democratic National Candidate Hillary Clinton's strengths and also features a lengthy section on how the Republican National Candidate Donald Trump could win.[59] It was filmed in Wilmington, Ohio, at the Murphy Theatre over the course of two nights in October 2016.[60][59] The film premiered just eleven days after it was shot at the IFC Center in New York City.[61]

Fahrenheit 11/9

In May 2017, it was announced that Moore had reunited with Harvey Weinstein to direct his new film about Donald Trump, titled Fahrenheit 11/9, which was released in approximately 1,500 theaters in the United States and Canada on September 21, 2018.[62][63][64] Sexual assault allegations against Weinstein prompted Moore to revoke the plan to work with The Weinstein Company, which stalled production.[65][66] The title refers to the day when Donald Trump officially became President-elect of the United States. In a column for Variety responding to the film's low opening weekend, "How Michael Moore Lost His Audience", sympathetic film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote "He's like an aging rock star putting out albums that simply don't mean as much to those who were, and are, his core fans".[67][68] According to Glenn Greenwald, "what he’s trying is of unparalleled importance: not to take the cheap route of exclusively denouncing Trump but to take the more complicated, challenging, and productive route of understanding who and what created the climate in which Trump could thrive."[69]

Planet of the Humans

Main article: Planet of the Humans

Michael Moore was executive producer of the documentary, Planet of the Humans, which was directed by Jeff Gibbs and released on July 31, 2019. The film makes the argument that since the first Earth Day, the condition of the planet has worsened, and questions whether mainstream approaches adopted by industry to mitigate climate change entail environmental impacts whose costs are comparable to or even possibly outweigh the benefits. The film received criticism from a number of climate change experts and activists who disputed its claims and the accuracy of figures cited in the film and suggested that the film could play into the hands of the fossil fuel industry.[70]

Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs, and co-producer Ozzie Zehner responded to the critics on an episode of Rising.[71][72]

Writing

 
Moore at Royce Hall, UCLA to promote his memoir Here Comes Trouble, September 2011

Moore has written and co-written eight non-fiction books, mostly on similar subject matter to his documentaries. Stupid White Men (2001) is ostensibly a critique of American domestic and foreign policy but, by Moore's own admission, is also "a book of political humor".[73] Dude, Where's My Country? (2003), is an examination of the Bush family’s relationships with Saudi royalty, the Bin Laden family, and the energy industry, and a call-to-action for liberals in the 2004 election.[citation needed] Several of his works have made bestseller lists.[74]

Acting

Moore has dabbled in acting, following a supporting role in Lucky Numbers (2000) playing the cousin of Lisa Kudrow's character, who agrees to be part of the scheme concocted by John Travolta's character. He also had a cameo in his Canadian Bacon as an anti-Canada activist. In 1999, he did a cameo in EDtv as one of the panel members. In 2004, he did a cameo, as a news journalist, in The Fever, starring Vanessa Redgrave in the lead.[75]

Television

Between 1994 and 1995, he directed and hosted the BBC television series TV Nation, which followed the format of news magazine shows but covered topics they avoid. The series aired on BBC2 in the UK. The series was also aired in the US on NBC in 1994 for 9 episodes and again for 8 episodes on Fox in 1995.[citation needed]

His other major series was The Awful Truth, which satirized actions by big corporations and politicians. It aired on the UK's Channel 4, and the Bravo network in the US, in 1999 and 2000. Moore won the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment for being the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth, where he was also described as "muckraker, author and documentary filmmaker".[76]

Another 1999 series, Michael Moore Live, was aired in the UK only on Channel 4, though it was broadcast from New York. This show had a similar format to The Awful Truth, but also incorporated phone-ins and a live stunt each week.[citation needed]

In 2017, Moore planned to return to prime time network television on Turner/TNT in late 2017 or early 2018 with a program called "Michael Moore Live from the Apocalypse".[77][78][64] In February 2019, however, the network announced the show would not be produced.[79][80]

Music videos

Moore has directed several music videos, including two for Rage Against the Machine for songs from The Battle of Los Angeles: "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify". He was threatened with arrest during the shooting of "Sleep Now in the Fire", which was filmed on Wall Street; and subsequently the city of New York City denied the band permission to play there, even though the band and Moore had secured a federal permit to perform.[81]

Moore also directed the videos for R.E.M. single "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" in 2001 and the System of a Down song "Boom!".[82][83]

Appearances in other documentaries

Theater

Moore's Broadway debut, The Terms of My Surrender, an anti-Trump dramatic monologue, premiered on August 10, 2017 at the Belasco Theatre.[88] Donald Trump tweeted his dislike for the show and falsely claimed that it closed early.[89] In the first week the production earned $456,195 in sales and $367,634 in the final week, altogether grossing $4.2 million, falling short of its potential gross.[90] It lasted 13 weeks with 96 performances until October 2017, grossing 49% of its potential.[91] Fox News gave it a negative review, in line with Trump's comments.[92] The show was unenthusiastically praised by The Guardian, which said he only wanted to "preach to the choir".[93] A spokesman for "The Terms of My Surrender" suggested that the production might have a in San Francisco in early 2018, which didn’t materialize.[94]

Honorary degree

He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities from Michigan State University in Fall 2014.[95][96][97]

Political views

Although Moore has been known for his political activism,[98] he rejects the label as redundant in a democracy: "I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. If we're not politically active, it ceases to be a democracy."[99] According to John Flesher of the Associated Press, Moore is known for his "fiery left-wing populism",[100] and publications such as the Socialist Worker Online have hailed him as the "new Tom Paine".[101] In a speech, he said that socialism is democracy and Christianity. However, he later said that economic philosophies from the past were not apt enough to describe today's realities.[102]

Moore was a high-profile guest at both the 2004 Democratic National Convention and the 2004 Republican National Convention, chronicling his impressions in USA Today. He was criticized in a speech by Republican Senator John McCain as "a disingenuous film-maker". Moore laughed and waved as Republican attendees jeered, later chanting "four more years". Moore gestured an L with his index finger and thumb at the crowd, which translates into "loser".[103]

During September and October 2004, Moore spoke at universities and colleges in swing states during his "Slacker Uprising Tour". The tour gave away ramen and underwear to students who promised to vote.[104][105] One stop during the tour was Utah Valley State College. A fight for his right to speak resulted in massive public debates and a media blitz, eventually resulting in a lawsuit against the college and the resignation of at least one member of the college's student government.[106][107] The Utah event was chronicled in the documentary film This Divided State.[107]

 
Moore lampoons George W. Bush's reaction to the September 11 attacks notification

Moore urged Ralph Nader not to run in 2004 so as not to split the left vote. On Real Time with Bill Maher, Moore and Bill Maher knelt before Nader to plead with him to stay out of the race.[108]

Moore drew attention in 2004 when he used the term "deserter" to describe then president George W. Bush while introducing Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark at a Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire. Noting that Clark had been a champion debater at West Point, Moore told a laughing crowd, "I know what you're thinking. I want to see that debate" between Clark and Bush – "the general versus the deserter". Moore said he was referring to published reports in several media outlets including The Boston Globe which had reported that "there is strong evidence that Bush performed no military service as required when he moved from Houston to Alabama to work on a U.S. Senate campaign from May to November 1972."[109][110][111]

In 2007, Moore became a contributing journalist at OpEdNews, and by May 2014, had authored over 70 articles published on their website.[112] Moore was an active supporter of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City and spoke with the OWS protesters on September 26, 2011.[113] On October 29, 2011, he spoke at the Occupy Oakland protest site to express his support.[114]

Moore praised Django Unchained, tweeting that the movie "is one of the best film satires ever. A rare American movie on slavery and the origins of our sick racist history."[115]

 
Moore at the anti-Trump rally in New York City, November 12, 2016, which was allegedly organized by a Russian group[116]

Moore's 2011 claims that "Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks – most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 – now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined" and that these 400 Americans "have more wealth than half of all Americans combined" was found to be true by PolitiFact and others.[117][118][119][120]

After Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, Moore praised him for "eliminating 75 percent of extreme poverty" while "[providing] free health and education for all".[121]

2000 presidential election

Moore supported Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election.[122] Moore was critical of Al Gore and George W. Bush. Moore criticizes Gore for the loss of thousands of jobs during his time as Vice president, voting to confirm Antonin Scalia, proposing more funding for the pentagon, and proposing to expand the War on drugs.[123] Moore reportedly told Bush “Your possible victory on Tuesday is a threat to our national security". Moore also called Bush “a banal, despicable, and corrupt human being".[123]

Barack Obama

On April 21, 2008, Moore endorsed Barack Obama for president, stating that Hillary Clinton's recent actions had been "disgusting".[124] Moore criticized the 2011 military intervention in Libya. After the US troops launched 110 Tomahawk missiles at military targets in Libya, Moore suggested that President Barack Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize and tweeted in his official Twitter account, "May I suggest a 50-mile evacuation zone around Obama's Nobel Peace Prize?"[125][126]

In an op-ed piece for The New York Times published on December 31, 2013, Moore assessed the Affordable Care Act, calling it "awful" and adding that "Obamacare's rocky start ... is a result of one fatal flaw: The Affordable Care Act is a pro-insurance-industry plan implemented by a president who knew in his heart that a single-payer, Medicare-for-all model was the true way to go." Despite his strong critique, however, Moore wrote that he still considers the plan a "godsend" because it provides a start "to get what we deserve: universal quality health care."[127][128]

2016 Presidential election

In December 2015, Moore announced his support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 United States presidential election.[129] Moore called Sanders a "force to contend with".[130] In January 2016, he officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.[131] He also described democratic socialism as "a true democracy where everyone has a seat at the table, everyone has a voice, not just the rich".[132] After Sanders lost the 2016 primaries, Moore urged Americans to vote for Clinton[133][134] while also correctly predicting that Trump would win the election because the post-industrial Midwestern states would vote for Trump.[135] After Trump was elected, Moore called Trump a "Russian traitor",[136] saying his presidency had "no legitimacy".[137]

In October 2016, Moore criticized Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing leaks from the DNC's emails, saying: "I think WikiLeaks and I think Assange, they're essentially anarchists and they know, just like a lot of people voting for Trump know, that he's their human Molotov cocktail and they want to blow up the system. It's an anarchic move."[138]

In November 2016, right after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, and inspired by Bertram Gross's 1980 book, Friendly Fascism, Moore reportedly stated: "The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show ... That's how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over."[139] On November 12, 2016, Moore participated in a NYC anti-Trump rally which was later (in 2018) alleged to have been organized by Russians who were indicted by Robert Mueller for meddling in the 2016 election.[140]

Donald Trump

Moore expresses his political views in 2017 – video from MSNBC

Moore started the website TrumpiLeaks in May 2017, to encourage whistleblowers to provide information about Donald Trump. Moore was inspired to create the site after witnessing the firings by Trump of three law enforcement officials, specifically: United States Attorney Preet Bharara, former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey.[141][142] Moore posted a message to his personal website, explaining the motivation of the new venture and that he wanted any information related to: "crimes, breaches of public trust and misconduct committed by Donald J. Trump and his associates".[143] He asserted, "Trump thinks he's above the law".[143] Moore stated it was his view that Trump had engaged in obstruction of justice, falsehoods to the United States citizenry, promoted violent behavior, and violated the Constitution of the United States.[144][145]

In March 2018, Moore criticized the "corporate media", saying "You turn on the TV, and it's 'Russia, Russia, Russia!' These are all shiny keys to distract us. We should know about the West Virginia strike. What an inspiration that would be. But they don't show this".[146]

In April 2018, Moore taunted Trump by ironically asking him why he had not already fired Robert Mueller.[147] After the Russia–United States summit of July 2018, Moore called for Trump’s impeachment, saying "Congress needs no more proof than Trump's admission yesterday that he sides with Putin to impeach and remove him."[148]

Moore compared Trump to Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler.[149] On August 10, 2019, Moore tweeted: "I guess they think a country dumb enough to elect Trump is stupid enough to believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide."[150][151]

In October 2019, he announced his political endorsement of Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[152] After Sanders lost the primaries, Moore urged Sanders supporters to vote for Joe Biden in the general election.[153]

Personal life

Moore married film producer Kathleen Glynn on October 19, 1991. He filed for divorce on June 17, 2013.[154] On July 22, 2014, the divorce was finalized.[155]

Moore was raised a Catholic but disagrees with traditional church teaching on subjects such as abortion[156] and same-sex marriage.[157] In an interview with The A.V. Club, when asked if there was a God, he stated, "Yes, there is. I don't know how you define that, but yeah."[158]

Following the Columbine High School massacre, Moore acquired a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Moore said that he initially intended to become the NRA's president to dismantle the organization, but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult.[159][160] Gun rights supporters such as Dave Kopel said there was no chance of that happening;[161] David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote that Moore failed to discover that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors.[162]

In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.[7] Later in 2005, Moore founded the Traverse City Film Festival held annually in Traverse City, Michigan. In 2009, he co-founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival, also held annually in Traverse City, where Moore helped to spearhead the renovation of the historic downtown State Theater.[163][164]

Work

Filmography

Year Title Director Writer Producer Actor Role Notes
1989 Roger & Me Yes Yes Yes Yes Himself Documentary
1992 Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint Yes Yes Yes Yes Documentary short film
1995 Canadian Bacon Yes Yes Yes Yes Redneck guy Narrative film
1997 The Big One Yes Yes No Yes Himself Documentary
1998 And Justice for All Yes Yes Yes Yes
1999 EDtv No No No Yes Narrative film
2000 Lucky Numbers No No No Yes Walter
2001 The Party's Over No No No Yes Himself Documentary
2002 Bowling for Columbine Yes Yes Yes Yes
2004 The Corporation No No No Yes
Fahrenheit 9/11 Yes Yes Yes Yes
2007 Sicko Yes Yes Yes Yes
2008 Slacker Uprising Yes Yes No Yes Documentary film
re-edited version of Captain Mike Across America, which he had released in 2007)
2009 Capitalism: A Love Story Yes Yes Yes Yes Documentary
2015 Where to Invade Next Yes Yes Yes Yes
2016 Michael Moore in TrumpLand Yes Yes Yes Yes
2018 Fahrenheit 11/9 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Bibliography

  • Moore, Michael (1996). Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-097733-7.
  • Moore, Michael; Glynn, Kathleen (1998). Adventures in a TV Nation. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-098809-6.
  • Moore, Michael (2001). Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!. New York: Regan Books. ISBN 0-06-039245-2.
  • Moore, Michael (2003). Dude, Where's My Country?. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-53223-1.
  • Moore, Michael (2004). Will They Ever Trust Us Again?. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-7152-1.
  • Moore, Michael (2004). The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-7292-7.
  • Moore, Michael (2008). Mike's Election Guide 2008. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0-446-54627-0.
  • Moore, Michael (2011). Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life. New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0-446-53224-2.

Video shorts

Television series

Podcasting

  • RUMBLE with Michael Moore (2019–present)[165]

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Further reading

  • Benson, Thomas W., and Snee, Brian J. (eds.): Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8093-3407-0.

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For other people named Michael Moore see Michael Moore disambiguation Not to be confused with Michael Moorer Michael Francis Moore born April 23 1954 is an American filmmaker author and left wing activist His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism 1 Michael MooreMoore during the Venice Film Festival in September 2009BornMichael Francis Moore 1954 04 23 April 23 1954 age 68 Davison Michigan U S Alma materUniversity of Michigan FlintOccupationsFilmmakerauthoractivistYears active1976 presentSpouseKathleen Glynn m 1991 div 2014 wbr Websitemichaelmoore wbr comMoore won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine which examined the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and the overall gun culture of the United States He also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9 11 a critical look at the presidency of George W Bush and the War on Terror which earned 119 194 771 to become the highest grossing documentary at the American box office of all time 2 The film also won the Palme d Or at the 2004 Cannes film festival and was subject to intense controversy 3 His documentary Sicko which examines health care in the United States is one of the top ten highest grossing documentaries as of 2020 update 2 In September 2008 he released his first free movie on the internet Slacker Uprising which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections 4 He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation a satirical news magazine television series and The Awful Truth a satirical show In 2018 he released his latest film Fahrenheit 11 9 a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and the subsequent presidency of Donald Trump He was executive producer of Planet of the Humans 2019 a documentary about the environmental movement Moore s works criticize topics such as globalization large corporations assault weapon ownership Presidents Bill Clinton 5 George W Bush and Donald Trump 6 the Iraq War the American health care system and capitalism overall In 2005 Time named Moore one of the world s 100 most influential people 7 Critics have labeled Moore himself as a propagandist 8 and his films as propaganda 9 10 11 12 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Journalism 2 2 Directing producing and screenwriting 2 2 1 Roger amp Me 2 2 2 Pets or Meat The Return to Flint 2 2 3 Canadian Bacon 2 2 4 The Big One 2 2 5 Bowling for Columbine 2 2 6 Fahrenheit 9 11 2 2 7 Sicko 2 2 8 Captain Mike Across America and Slacker Uprising 2 2 9 Capitalism A Love Story 2 2 10 Where to Invade Next 2 2 11 Michael Moore in TrumpLand 2 2 12 Fahrenheit 11 9 2 2 13 Planet of the Humans 2 3 Writing 2 4 Acting 2 5 Television 2 6 Music videos 2 7 Appearances in other documentaries 2 8 Theater 3 Honorary degree 4 Political views 4 1 2000 presidential election 4 2 Barack Obama 4 3 2016 Presidential election 4 4 Donald Trump 5 Personal life 6 Work 6 1 Filmography 6 2 Bibliography 6 2 1 Video shorts 6 3 Television series 6 4 Podcasting 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life EditMichael Francis Moore was born outside Flint Michigan and raised in Davison by parents Helene Veronica nee Wall 1921 2002 13 a secretary and Francis Richard Frank Moore 1921 2014 an automotive assembly line worker 14 15 16 17 At that time the city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories where his parents and grandfather worked His uncle LaVerne was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the Flint sit down strike 18 Moore was brought up in a traditional Catholic home 19 and has Irish and smaller amounts of Scottish and English ancestry 20 21 Some of his ancestors were Quakers 21 22 He attended parochial St John s Elementary School for primary school and later attended St Paul s Seminary in Saginaw Michigan for a year 14 23 24 25 26 He then attended Davison High School where he was active in both drama and debate 27 graduating in 1972 As a member of the Boy Scouts of America he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout At the age of 18 he was elected to the Davison school board 14 At the time he was the youngest person elected to office in the U S as the minimum age to hold public office had just been lowered to 18 28 Career EditThis section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Michael Moore news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Journalism Edit Moore dropped out of the University of Michigan Flint following his first year of school where he wrote for the student newspaper The Michigan Times At 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine The Flint Voice which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it expanded to cover the entire state Popstar Harry Chapin is credited with being the reason the magazine was able to start by performing benefit concerts and donating the money to Moore Moore crept backstage after a concert to Chapin s dressing room and convinced him to do a concert and give the money to him Chapin subsequently did a concert in Flint every year 29 In 1986 when Moore became the editor of Mother Jones a liberal political magazine The Michigan Voice was shut down by the investors and he moved to California citation needed Moore at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009 After four months at Mother Jones Moore was fired Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard reported this was for refusing to print an article by Paul Berman that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua 30 Moore refused to run the article believing it to be inaccurate The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years 31 Moore believes that Mother Jones fired him because of the publisher s refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown of Flint Michigan He responded by putting laid off GM worker Ben Hamper who was also writing for the same magazine at the time on the magazine s cover leading to his termination Moore sued for wrongful dismissal and settled out of court for 58 000 providing him with seed money for his first film Roger amp Me 32 Directing producing and screenwriting Edit Roger amp Me Edit The 1989 film Roger amp Me was Moore s first documentary about what happened to Flint Michigan after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico where the workers were paid lower wages The Roger is Roger B Smith former CEO and President of General Motors Harlan Jacobson editor of Film Comment magazine said that Moore muddled the chronology in Roger amp Me to make it seem that events that took place before G M s layoffs were a consequence of them 33 Critic Roger Ebert defended Moore s handling of the timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that had less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a satiric viewpoint 34 Pets or Meat The Return to Flint Edit Moore made a follow up 23 minute documentary film Pets or Meat The Return to Flint that aired on PBS in 1992 It is based on Roger amp Me The film s title refers to Rhonda Britton a Flint Michigan resident featured in both the 1989 and 1992 films who sells rabbits as either pets or meat 35 Canadian Bacon Edit Moore s 1995 satirical film Canadian Bacon features a fictional U S president played by Alan Alda engineering a fake war with Canada in order to boost his popularity 36 The film is also one of the last featuring Canadian actor John Candy 36 Some commentators in the media felt the film was influenced by the Stanley Kubrick film Dr Strangelove 36 The Big One Edit Moore s 1997 film The Big One documents the tour publicizing Moore s book Downsize This Random Threats from an Unarmed American in which he criticizes mass layoffs despite record corporate profits Among others he targets Nike for outsourcing shoe production to Indonesia 37 Bowling for Columbine Edit His documentary Bowling for Columbine released in 2002 probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States taking as a starting point the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 Bowling for Columbine won the Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival 38 and France s Cesar Award as the Best Foreign Film In the United States it won the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature It also enjoyed great commercial and critical success for a film of its type and has since gone on to be considered one of the greatest documentary films of all time 39 40 41 42 At the time of Columbine s release it was the highest grossing mainstream released documentary a record now held by Moore s Fahrenheit 9 11 2 Fahrenheit 9 11 Edit Moore s film Fahrenheit 9 11 released in 2004 examines America in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks particularly the record of the George W Bush Administration and alleged links between the families of George W Bush and Osama bin Laden Fahrenheit was awarded the Palme d Or 43 the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956 Moore later announced that Fahrenheit 9 11 would not be in consideration for the 2005 Academy Award for Documentary Feature but instead for the Academy Award for Best Picture He stated he wanted the movie to be seen by a few million more people via television broadcast prior to Election Day According to Moore Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical release and since the November 2 election was fewer than nine months after the film s release it would have been disqualified for the Documentary Oscar 44 Regardless Fahrenheit did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture The title of the film alludes to the classic book Fahrenheit 451 about a future totalitarian state in which books are banned according to the book paper begins to burn at 451 F 233 C The pre release subtitle of the film confirms the allusion The temperature at which freedom burns citation needed As of August 2012 Fahrenheit 9 11 is the highest grossing documentary of all time taking in over US 200 million worldwide including United States box office revenue of almost US 120 million 2 In February 2011 Moore sued producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein for US 2 7 million in unpaid profits from the film claiming they used Hollywood accounting tricks to avoid paying him the money 45 In February 2012 Moore and the Weinsteins informed the court that they had settled their dispute 46 Sicko Edit Moore at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival receiving a standing ovation for Sicko Moore directed the 2007 film Sicko about the American health care system focusing particularly on the managed care and pharmaceutical industries At least four major pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Eli Lilly AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline ordered their employees not to grant any interviews or assist Moore 47 48 49 According to Moore in a letter on his website roads that often surprise us and lead us to new ideas and challenge us to reconsider the ones we began with have caused some minor delays The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19 2007 receiving a lengthy standing ovation and was released in the U S and Canada on June 29 2007 50 The film is currently ranked the twelfth highest grossing documentary of all time 2 and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature 51 Captain Mike Across America and Slacker Uprising Edit Moore takes a look at the politics of college students in what he calls Bush Administration America with Captain Mike Across America which was shot during Moore s 62 city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election 52 53 The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7 2007 54 It was later re edited by Moore into Slacker Uprising and released for free on the internet on September 23 2008 55 Capitalism A Love Story Edit Released on September 23 2009 Capitalism A Love Story looks at the financial crisis of 2007 2008 and the U S economy during the transition between the outgoing Bush Administration and the incoming Obama Administration Addressing a press conference at its release Moore said Democracy is not a spectator sport it s a participatory event If we don t participate in it it ceases to be a democracy So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him 56 Where to Invade Next Edit Where to Invade Next examines the benefits of progressive social policies in various countries The film had its premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival 57 Godfrey Cheshire writing for Roger Ebert com wrote that Moore s surprising and extraordinarily winning Where to Invade Next will almost surely cast his detractors at Fox News and similar sinkholes into consternation 58 Michael Moore in TrumpLand Edit In Michael Moore in TrumpLand Moore talks about the 2016 Presidential Election Campaigns It is a solo performance showing Moore on stage speaking to a seated audience The film consists of Moore s opinions of the candidates and highlights the Democratic National Candidate Hillary Clinton s strengths and also features a lengthy section on how the Republican National Candidate Donald Trump could win 59 It was filmed in Wilmington Ohio at the Murphy Theatre over the course of two nights in October 2016 60 59 The film premiered just eleven days after it was shot at the IFC Center in New York City 61 Fahrenheit 11 9 Edit In May 2017 it was announced that Moore had reunited with Harvey Weinstein to direct his new film about Donald Trump titled Fahrenheit 11 9 which was released in approximately 1 500 theaters in the United States and Canada on September 21 2018 62 63 64 Sexual assault allegations against Weinstein prompted Moore to revoke the plan to work with The Weinstein Company which stalled production 65 66 The title refers to the day when Donald Trump officially became President elect of the United States In a column for Variety responding to the film s low opening weekend How Michael Moore Lost His Audience sympathetic film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote He s like an aging rock star putting out albums that simply don t mean as much to those who were and are his core fans 67 68 According to Glenn Greenwald what he s trying is of unparalleled importance not to take the cheap route of exclusively denouncing Trump but to take the more complicated challenging and productive route of understanding who and what created the climate in which Trump could thrive 69 Planet of the Humans Edit Main article Planet of the Humans Michael Moore was executive producer of the documentary Planet of the Humans which was directed by Jeff Gibbs and released on July 31 2019 The film makes the argument that since the first Earth Day the condition of the planet has worsened and questions whether mainstream approaches adopted by industry to mitigate climate change entail environmental impacts whose costs are comparable to or even possibly outweigh the benefits The film received criticism from a number of climate change experts and activists who disputed its claims and the accuracy of figures cited in the film and suggested that the film could play into the hands of the fossil fuel industry 70 Michael Moore Jeff Gibbs and co producer Ozzie Zehner responded to the critics on an episode of Rising 71 72 Writing Edit Moore at Royce Hall UCLA to promote his memoir Here Comes Trouble September 2011 Moore has written and co written eight non fiction books mostly on similar subject matter to his documentaries Stupid White Men 2001 is ostensibly a critique of American domestic and foreign policy but by Moore s own admission is also a book of political humor 73 Dude Where s My Country 2003 is an examination of the Bush family s relationships with Saudi royalty the Bin Laden family and the energy industry and a call to action for liberals in the 2004 election citation needed Several of his works have made bestseller lists 74 Acting Edit Moore has dabbled in acting following a supporting role in Lucky Numbers 2000 playing the cousin of Lisa Kudrow s character who agrees to be part of the scheme concocted by John Travolta s character He also had a cameo in his Canadian Bacon as an anti Canada activist In 1999 he did a cameo in EDtv as one of the panel members In 2004 he did a cameo as a news journalist in The Fever starring Vanessa Redgrave in the lead 75 Television Edit Between 1994 and 1995 he directed and hosted the BBC television series TV Nation which followed the format of news magazine shows but covered topics they avoid The series aired on BBC2 in the UK The series was also aired in the US on NBC in 1994 for 9 episodes and again for 8 episodes on Fox in 1995 citation needed His other major series was The Awful Truth which satirized actions by big corporations and politicians It aired on the UK s Channel 4 and the Bravo network in the US in 1999 and 2000 Moore won the Hugh M Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment for being the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth where he was also described as muckraker author and documentary filmmaker 76 Another 1999 series Michael Moore Live was aired in the UK only on Channel 4 though it was broadcast from New York This show had a similar format to The Awful Truth but also incorporated phone ins and a live stunt each week citation needed In 2017 Moore planned to return to prime time network television on Turner TNT in late 2017 or early 2018 with a program called Michael Moore Live from the Apocalypse 77 78 64 In February 2019 however the network announced the show would not be produced 79 80 Music videos Edit Moore has directed several music videos including two for Rage Against the Machine for songs from The Battle of Los Angeles Sleep Now in the Fire and Testify He was threatened with arrest during the shooting of Sleep Now in the Fire which was filmed on Wall Street and subsequently the city of New York City denied the band permission to play there even though the band and Moore had secured a federal permit to perform 81 Moore also directed the videos for R E M single All the Way to Reno You re Gonna Be a Star in 2001 and the System of a Down song Boom 82 83 Appearances in other documentaries Edit He appeared in The Drugging of Our Children a 2005 documentary about over prescription of psychiatric medication to children and teenagers directed by Gary Null a proponent of alternative medicine In the film Moore agrees with Gary Null that Ritalin and other similar drugs are over prescribed saying that they are seen as a pacifier He appeared on fellow Flint natives Grand Funk Railroad s episode of Behind the Music citation needed He appeared as an off camera interviewer in Blood in the Face a 1991 documentary about white supremacy groups At the center of the film is a neo Nazi gathering in Michigan 84 Moore appeared in the 2001 documovie The Party s Over discussing Democrats and Republicans 85 He appeared in The Yes Men a 2003 documentary about two men who pose as the World Trade Organization He appears during a segment concerning working conditions in Mexico and Latin America citation needed Moore was interviewed for the 2004 documentary The Corporation One of his highlighted quotes was The problem is the profit motive for corporations there s no such thing as enough 86 He appeared in the 2006 documentary I m Going to Tell You a Secret which chronicles Madonna s 2004 Re Invention World Tour Moore attended her show in New York City at Madison Square Garden 87 He appeared briefly in the 2016 documentary Cameraperson directed by Kirsten Johnson who was one of his camera operators in Fahrenheit 9 11Theater Edit Moore s Broadway debut The Terms of My Surrender an anti Trump dramatic monologue premiered on August 10 2017 at the Belasco Theatre 88 Donald Trump tweeted his dislike for the show and falsely claimed that it closed early 89 In the first week the production earned 456 195 in sales and 367 634 in the final week altogether grossing 4 2 million falling short of its potential gross 90 It lasted 13 weeks with 96 performances until October 2017 grossing 49 of its potential 91 Fox News gave it a negative review in line with Trump s comments 92 The show was unenthusiastically praised by The Guardian which said he only wanted to preach to the choir 93 A spokesman for The Terms of My Surrender suggested that the production might have a in San Francisco in early 2018 which didn t materialize 94 Honorary degree EditHe was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities from Michigan State University in Fall 2014 95 96 97 Political views EditAlthough Moore has been known for his political activism 98 he rejects the label as redundant in a democracy I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist If we re not politically active it ceases to be a democracy 99 According to John Flesher of the Associated Press Moore is known for his fiery left wing populism 100 and publications such as the Socialist Worker Online have hailed him as the new Tom Paine 101 In a speech he said that socialism is democracy and Christianity However he later said that economic philosophies from the past were not apt enough to describe today s realities 102 Moore was a high profile guest at both the 2004 Democratic National Convention and the 2004 Republican National Convention chronicling his impressions in USA Today He was criticized in a speech by Republican Senator John McCain as a disingenuous film maker Moore laughed and waved as Republican attendees jeered later chanting four more years Moore gestured an L with his index finger and thumb at the crowd which translates into loser 103 During September and October 2004 Moore spoke at universities and colleges in swing states during his Slacker Uprising Tour The tour gave away ramen and underwear to students who promised to vote 104 105 One stop during the tour was Utah Valley State College A fight for his right to speak resulted in massive public debates and a media blitz eventually resulting in a lawsuit against the college and the resignation of at least one member of the college s student government 106 107 The Utah event was chronicled in the documentary film This Divided State 107 Moore lampoons George W Bush s reaction to the September 11 attacks notification Moore urged Ralph Nader not to run in 2004 so as not to split the left vote On Real Time with Bill Maher Moore and Bill Maher knelt before Nader to plead with him to stay out of the race 108 Moore drew attention in 2004 when he used the term deserter to describe then president George W Bush while introducing Retired Army Gen Wesley K Clark at a Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire Noting that Clark had been a champion debater at West Point Moore told a laughing crowd I know what you re thinking I want to see that debate between Clark and Bush the general versus the deserter Moore said he was referring to published reports in several media outlets including The Boston Globe which had reported that there is strong evidence that Bush performed no military service as required when he moved from Houston to Alabama to work on a U S Senate campaign from May to November 1972 109 110 111 In 2007 Moore became a contributing journalist at OpEdNews and by May 2014 had authored over 70 articles published on their website 112 Moore was an active supporter of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City and spoke with the OWS protesters on September 26 2011 113 On October 29 2011 he spoke at the Occupy Oakland protest site to express his support 114 Moore praised Django Unchained tweeting that the movie is one of the best film satires ever A rare American movie on slavery and the origins of our sick racist history 115 Moore at the anti Trump rally in New York City November 12 2016 which was allegedly organized by a Russian group 116 Moore s 2011 claims that Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals 400 little Mubaraks most of whom benefited in some way from the multi trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 now have more cash stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined and that these 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined was found to be true by PolitiFact and others 117 118 119 120 After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died in March 2013 Moore praised him for eliminating 75 percent of extreme poverty while providing free health and education for all 121 2000 presidential election Edit Moore supported Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election 122 Moore was critical of Al Gore and George W Bush Moore criticizes Gore for the loss of thousands of jobs during his time as Vice president voting to confirm Antonin Scalia proposing more funding for the pentagon and proposing to expand the War on drugs 123 Moore reportedly told Bush Your possible victory on Tuesday is a threat to our national security Moore also called Bush a banal despicable and corrupt human being 123 Barack Obama Edit On April 21 2008 Moore endorsed Barack Obama for president stating that Hillary Clinton s recent actions had been disgusting 124 Moore criticized the 2011 military intervention in Libya After the US troops launched 110 Tomahawk missiles at military targets in Libya Moore suggested that President Barack Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize and tweeted in his official Twitter account May I suggest a 50 mile evacuation zone around Obama s Nobel Peace Prize 125 126 In an op ed piece for The New York Times published on December 31 2013 Moore assessed the Affordable Care Act calling it awful and adding that Obamacare s rocky start is a result of one fatal flaw The Affordable Care Act is a pro insurance industry plan implemented by a president who knew in his heart that a single payer Medicare for all model was the true way to go Despite his strong critique however Moore wrote that he still considers the plan a godsend because it provides a start to get what we deserve universal quality health care 127 128 2016 Presidential election Edit In December 2015 Moore announced his support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 United States presidential election 129 Moore called Sanders a force to contend with 130 In January 2016 he officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president 131 He also described democratic socialism as a true democracy where everyone has a seat at the table everyone has a voice not just the rich 132 After Sanders lost the 2016 primaries Moore urged Americans to vote for Clinton 133 134 while also correctly predicting that Trump would win the election because the post industrial Midwestern states would vote for Trump 135 After Trump was elected Moore called Trump a Russian traitor 136 saying his presidency had no legitimacy 137 In October 2016 Moore criticized Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing leaks from the DNC s emails saying I think WikiLeaks and I think Assange they re essentially anarchists and they know just like a lot of people voting for Trump know that he s their human Molotov cocktail and they want to blow up the system It s an anarchic move 138 In November 2016 right after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and inspired by Bertram Gross s 1980 book Friendly Fascism Moore reportedly stated The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps but they ll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show That s how the 21st century fascists will essentially take over 139 On November 12 2016 Moore participated in a NYC anti Trump rally which was later in 2018 alleged to have been organized by Russians who were indicted by Robert Mueller for meddling in the 2016 election 140 Donald Trump Edit source source source source source source source source source source source source track Moore expresses his political views in 2017 video from MSNBC Moore started the website TrumpiLeaks in May 2017 to encourage whistleblowers to provide information about Donald Trump Moore was inspired to create the site after witnessing the firings by Trump of three law enforcement officials specifically United States Attorney Preet Bharara former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey 141 142 Moore posted a message to his personal website explaining the motivation of the new venture and that he wanted any information related to crimes breaches of public trust and misconduct committed by Donald J Trump and his associates 143 He asserted Trump thinks he s above the law 143 Moore stated it was his view that Trump had engaged in obstruction of justice falsehoods to the United States citizenry promoted violent behavior and violated the Constitution of the United States 144 145 In March 2018 Moore criticized the corporate media saying You turn on the TV and it s Russia Russia Russia These are all shiny keys to distract us We should know about the West Virginia strike What an inspiration that would be But they don t show this 146 In April 2018 Moore taunted Trump by ironically asking him why he had not already fired Robert Mueller 147 After the Russia United States summit of July 2018 Moore called for Trump s impeachment saying Congress needs no more proof than Trump s admission yesterday that he sides with Putin to impeach and remove him 148 Moore compared Trump to Nazi Germany s dictator Adolf Hitler 149 On August 10 2019 Moore tweeted I guess they think a country dumb enough to elect Trump is stupid enough to believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide 150 151 In October 2019 he announced his political endorsement of Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries 152 After Sanders lost the primaries Moore urged Sanders supporters to vote for Joe Biden in the general election 153 Personal life EditMoore married film producer Kathleen Glynn on October 19 1991 He filed for divorce on June 17 2013 154 On July 22 2014 the divorce was finalized 155 Moore was raised a Catholic but disagrees with traditional church teaching on subjects such as abortion 156 and same sex marriage 157 In an interview with The A V Club when asked if there was a God he stated Yes there is I don t know how you define that but yeah 158 Following the Columbine High School massacre Moore acquired a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association NRA Moore said that he initially intended to become the NRA s president to dismantle the organization but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult 159 160 Gun rights supporters such as Dave Kopel said there was no chance of that happening 161 David T Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote that Moore failed to discover that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors 162 In 2005 Time named Moore one of the world s 100 most influential people 7 Later in 2005 Moore founded the Traverse City Film Festival held annually in Traverse City Michigan In 2009 he co founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival also held annually in Traverse City where Moore helped to spearhead the renovation of the historic downtown State Theater 163 164 Work EditFilmography Edit Year Title Director Writer Producer Actor Role Notes1989 Roger amp Me Yes Yes Yes Yes Himself Documentary1992 Pets or Meat The Return to Flint Yes Yes Yes Yes Documentary short film1995 Canadian Bacon Yes Yes Yes Yes Redneck guy Narrative film1997 The Big One Yes Yes No Yes Himself Documentary1998 And Justice for All Yes Yes Yes Yes1999 EDtv No No No Yes Narrative film2000 Lucky Numbers No No No Yes Walter2001 The Party s Over No No No Yes Himself Documentary2002 Bowling for Columbine Yes Yes Yes Yes2004 The Corporation No No No YesFahrenheit 9 11 Yes Yes Yes Yes2007 Sicko Yes Yes Yes Yes2008 Slacker Uprising Yes Yes No Yes Documentary filmre edited version of Captain Mike Across America which he had released in 2007 2009 Capitalism A Love Story Yes Yes Yes Yes Documentary2015 Where to Invade Next Yes Yes Yes Yes2016 Michael Moore in TrumpLand Yes Yes Yes Yes2018 Fahrenheit 11 9 Yes Yes Yes YesBibliography Edit Moore Michael 1996 Downsize This Random Threats from an Unarmed American New York HarperPerennial ISBN 0 06 097733 7 Moore Michael Glynn Kathleen 1998 Adventures in a TV Nation New York HarperPerennial ISBN 0 06 098809 6 Moore Michael 2001 Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation New York Regan Books ISBN 0 06 039245 2 Moore Michael 2003 Dude Where s My Country New York Warner Books ISBN 0 446 53223 1 Moore Michael 2004 Will They Ever Trust Us Again New York Simon amp Schuster ISBN 0 7432 7152 1 Moore Michael 2004 The Official Fahrenheit 9 11 Reader New York Simon amp Schuster ISBN 0 7432 7292 7 Moore Michael 2008 Mike s Election Guide 2008 New York Grand Central Publishing ISBN 978 0 446 54627 0 Moore Michael 2011 Here Comes Trouble Stories from My Life New York Grand Central Publishing ISBN 978 0 446 53224 2 2012 Audible 2011 Here Comes Trouble Stories from My Life audiobook read by Michael Moore Grand Central Publishing ISBN 978 1619692091Video shorts Edit Rage Against the Machine Sleep Now in the Fire 2000 Rage Against the Machine Testify 2000 R E M All the Way to Reno You re Gonna Be a Star 2001 In View The Best of R E M 1988 2003 2003 System of a Down Boom 2003 Television series Edit TV Nation 1994 The Awful Truth 1999 Michael Moore Live 1999 Podcasting Edit RUMBLE with Michael Moore 2019 present 165 References Edit In liberal Hollywood a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump Los Angeles Times March 11 2017 Retrieved May 4 2021 films by left wing documentarian Michael Moore Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans removed from YouTube The Guardian May 26 2020 Retrieved May 4 2021 who built his reputation as a left wing filmmaker Michael Moore rallies Occupy Oakland protests NBC News Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing filmmaker Michael Moore Michael Moore in Trumpland left wing filmmaker releases surprise movie ahead of US election The Telegraph October 19 2016 ISSN 0307 1235 Archived from the original on January 11 2022 Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing filmmaker releases Jenkins Holman W Jr June 5 2020 Opinion Michael Moore s Inconvenient Half Truth The Wall Street Journal ISSN 0099 9660 Retrieved May 4 2021 Most of what left wing film producer Michael Moore Eastwood I Am Certainly Not Affiliated with Mr Obama Politics News ABC News Radio abcnewsradioonline com Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted Scheck Frank October 7 2008 American Carol an unfunny political spoof Reuters Retrieved May 4 2021 left wing politics and provocateur filmmaker Michael Moore Michael Moore film on U S drugmakers UPI Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing moviemaker Michael Moore Scheck Frank August 10 2017 The Terms of My Surrender Theater Review The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved May 4 2021 left wing provocateur filmmaker Moore s Capitalism off to profitable start LA Times Blogs Company Town September 24 2009 Retrieved May 4 2021 provocative left wing filmmaker Michael Moore has a plan to make Trump toast again The Independent February 27 2017 Archived from the original on May 14 2022 Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing filmmaker Michael Moore Closer Look at Michael Moore s New Film Sicko Fox News March 25 2015 Retrieved May 4 2021 Left wing filmmaker Michael Moore Morris Valerie January 7 2020 The Memo Will Iran crisis sideline impeachment process TheHill Retrieved May 4 2021 left wing 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amp Me 1989 and Capitalism A Love Story 2009 Williamson Marianne September 18 2007 Filmmaker Michael Moore s Spirituality O The Oprah Magazine Archived from the original on April 12 2010 Retrieved December 10 2019 Michael Moore talks Capitalism and how Irish background shapes his views September 30 2009 a b Stated on Finding Your Roots February 26 2019 Fonger Ron February 28 2019 Michael Moore s ancestor was a Scottish slave killed by American Indians MLive On Moore s late mother s side of the family Gates showed records indicating Moore s third great grandparents were Quakers living in North Carolina His third great grandfather was brought before a court martial in 1812 after refusing to serve in a militia That is amazing and such a good feeling too Moore said Quakers are pacifists among the kindest and most loving people you will ever meet Schultz Emily 2005 Michael Moore a biography ECW Press pp 7 8 ISBN 1 55022 699 1 Richard Knight Jr June 27 2007 To Your Health A Talk with Sicko s 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December 8 2019 Moore Michael September 12 2003 Michael Moore to Wesley Clark Run MichaelMoore com Archived from the original on September 28 2003 Retrieved January 14 2019 Moore may tackle gay rights Canada com Canwest News Service July 11 2007 Archived from the original on August 3 2011 Retrieved December 7 2019 Thompson Stephen Is There A God The A V Club Retrieved April 14 2018 Collins Andrew November 11 2002 Guardian NFT interview Michael Moore The Guardian London Retrieved August 22 2011 I became a lifetime member after the Columbine massacre because my first thought after Columbine was to run against Charlton Heston for the presidency of the NRA You have to be a lifetime member to be able to do that so I had to pay 750 to join My plan was to get 5 m Americans to join for the lowest basic membership and vote for me so that I d win and dismantle the organization Unfortunately I figured that s just too much work for me so instead I made this movie Lawrence Ken 2004 The World According to Michael Moore A Portrait in His Own Words Andrews McMeel Publishing p 81 ISBN 1 4494 1332 3 Kopel Dave April 4 2003 Bowling Truths National Review Archived from the original on October 10 2010 Retrieved December 14 2019 Hardy David T Clarke Jason 2005 Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man HarperCollins p 114 ISBN 0 06 077960 8 Phillip Abby July 22 2014 Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore s conservative neighbors gawk revel in his messy divorce The Washington Post Retrieved June 30 2015 Michael Moore July 15 2012 Emmy winning Director I Built a Movie Theater and a Film Festival and I d Like You to Come to It Huffington Post Retrieved June 30 2015 Beresford Trilby December 21 2019 Robert De Niro Compares Trump Presidency to Abusive Relationship You Don t Know What s Going to Happen The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved December 25 2019 Michael Moore s new weekly podcast Rumble Further reading EditBenson Thomas W and Snee Brian J eds Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 2015 ISBN 978 0 8093 3407 0 External links EditMichael Moore at Wikipedia s sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Data from Wikidata Official website Michael Moore at The Huffington Post Michael Moore at Curlie Michael Moore at IMDb Appearances on C SPAN Rumble with Michael Moore Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Moore amp oldid 1132505913, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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