Bowling for Columbine

  • 2002

    Release Date

  • October 9th, 2002

  • Runtime

  • 120 minutes

  • Synopsis

  • Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? Talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from many other countries? What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old, Bowling for Columbine is a journey through America, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

  • CAST

  • Michael Moore - Self,   George H. W. Bush - Self,   George W. Bush - Self,   Charlton Heston - Self - NRA President,   Jacobo Árbenz - Self - President of Guatemala,   Mike Bradley - Self - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada,   Dick Clark - Self,   Arthur A. Busch - Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan,   Michael Caldwell - Self - Police Detective,   Richard Castaldo - Self - Columbine Victim,   Bill Clinton - Self,   Steve Davis - Self - Deputy Sheriff,   Ngo Dinh Diem - Self - President of South Vietnam,   Mike Epstein - Self - Shopper in Mall,   Joe Farmer - Self - Superintendent of Schools,   Matt Stone - Self,   Brooks Brown - Self,   Dick Herlan - Self,   Marilyn Manson - Self,   Chris Rock - Self,   Salvador Allende - Self - President of Chile (archive footage),   Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Self (archive footage),   King Charles III of the United Kingdom - Self (archive footage),   Keanu Reeves - Neo (archive footage),   Adolf Hitler - Self (archive footage),   R. Budd Dwyer - Self (archive footage),   Eric Harris - Self (archive footage),   Dylan Klebold - Self (archive footage),   Ngô Đình Diệm - Self - President of South Vietnam (archive footage),   Jessica Savitch - Self (archive footage),   Trey Parker - Self,   Matt Stone - self,   Fritz Hollings - Self (archive footage),   Byron Dorgan - Self (archive footage),   Joe Lieberman - Self (archive footage)     

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