Founding Fathers
by Mark Hufnail, Melissa Jo Peltier
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Actor: Beau Bridges, Carol Berkin, Keith Arbour, Peter Coyote, Richard BrookhiserDirector: Mark Hufnail, Melissa Jo Peltier
Brand: A&E
Writer: Melissa Jo Peltier
Producer: Bonnie Peterson
Producer: Cameo Wallace
Producer: Christina Lublin
Producer: John Gengl
Writer: Max M. Fletcher
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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Movie Review: Founding lies
Summary: 1 Stars
This propaganda piece from American companies makes the Russian's work look good. Histrionics, lies, and all around elevation of men who were inherently less than idealistic than what most schools teach about. Your best bet is to look at this as nothing more than cheap agitprop or some type of hilarious cover up of wealthy white agrarian men with outdated values. Most of the "great Founding Fathers" owned slaves, denied expression to women, believed in wage-slavery, didn't think Native people were human and didn't want to pay centralized taxes for England's protection. America (USA) has never been a "democracy", it has always been controlled by a small minority of powerful and wealthy elites, using indoctrination, a contorted educational system, a specialized intelligence police force, and propaganda, such as this, to shape the masses.These are the "men" to blame for the gigantic, bureaucratic war state that is America today. Go read Orwell or Howard Zinn again, unless of course you like to believe in lies.
Summary of Founding Fathers
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 01/30/2001 Run time: 200 minutes Rating: NrThe four programs from the History Channel in this set profile America's Founding Fathers, noting right at the outset they were a "mismatched group of quarrelsome aristocrats, merchants, and lawyers." The story of how these disparate characters fomented rebellion in the colonies, formed the Continental Congress, fought the Revolutionary War, and wrote the Constitution is told by noted historians, and the production is enhanced with beautifully photographed reenactments as well as intelligent use of period paintings and engravings. The story begins with Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Boston, whose protests against British taxation led to the Boston Tea Party. Moving on to the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, the brilliant delegates from the South, particularly George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, appear on the scene, and the story is told of how an improbable cohesion between the colonies began. Other main characters, including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, appear in turn, and each of the major participants is portrayed in a biographical profile. How these men all came to act together, despite the stark differences in their backgrounds and temperaments, becomes the main thread of the story. They were all quite human, as the historians who appear in interviews remind us. Some of them drank too much, some had illegitimate children, some owned slaves, and some could hardly get along with anyone. Yet these men with complicated private lives worked together and performed heroically. This is an intelligently rendered and captivating look at the men who formed the American nation. --Robert J. McNamara
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