Michael Moore Filmography

Sicko

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions toward the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary that Read More

Manufacturing Dissent

Synopsis: In an era where fact, fiction, and legend have become increasingly difficult to distinguish, Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to explore the politically charged climate in America and find out just how documentary director Michael Moore has evolved from a simple filmmaker into an icon of Read More

Captain Mike Across America

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Joan Baez, Roseanne, Steve Earle, Eddie Vedder, Michael Moore

Synopsis: Opinionated documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes an up-close look at the political leanings of college students in George W. Bush-era America with this effort shot during Moore's 60-city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 election. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Al Franken: God Spoke

Actors: Al Franken

Synopsis: The documentary Al Franken: God Spoke follows the comedian-turned-pundit as he goes about his daily business. Through the course of the film, Franken discusses his transformation from comedy to politics, and discusses his ambitions. Franken also takes every opportunity to jab at his political Read More

This Divided State

Actors: Michael Moore, Jay Vogel, Jim Bassey, Alex Caldiero

Synopsis: The state of Utah has long been home to the American headquarters of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (better known as the Mormons), and as befits the straight-laced lifestyle dictated by the faith, Utah tends to be a solidly conservative community and traditionally supportive of Republican Read More

Left of the Dial

Synopsis: Experience the turbulent rise of America's first all-liberal radio network firsthand as documentary filmmakers Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan follow the progression of Air America Radio from conception to the airwaves through interviews with such key figures as Al Franken, Randi Rhodes Read More

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Kane Pappas, Orwell Rolls in His Grave questions whether the bleak, feverishly regulated world of author George Orwell's 1984 is no longer a dire fictional account of government power gone wrong but a creeping reality of recent American media trends. The film focuses on the Read More

Fahrenheit 9/11

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: Directed by Michael Moore, whose aura of controversy only grew after his Oscar acceptance speech at the 2003 Academy Awards, Fahrenheit 9/11, like Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Roger & Me, promises to expose the corporate wrongdoings and big-money scandals perpetrated by America's financial Read More

The Corporation

Actors: Jane Akre, Raymond L. Anderson, Joe Badaracco, Maude Barlow, Mark Barry

Synopsis: In the mid-1800s, corporations began to be recognized as individuals by U.S. courts, granting them unprecedented rights. The Corporation, a documentary by filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and author Joel Bakan, delves into that legal standard, essentially asking: if corporations were Read More

Liberty Bound

Actors: Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Winston, Michael Moore, Jeff Seemann

Synopsis: In a time when the delicate balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism is constantly shifting, filmmaker Christine Rose explores the history making events that help to shape our future while exploring such issues as courage, fear, propaganda, and rhetoric. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Michael Moore Hates America

Synopsis: From Michael Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan to the movie-making capital of the United States, director Mike Wilson's inflammatory documentary travels across the country to hold the controversial Sicko director's allegedly questionable tactics up to the light for closer examination. Wilson is Read More

There's Something About W

Synopsis: This deeply critical and often humorous documentary opens with President George W. Bush's acceptance of the 2000 Republican nomination and Bush's assertion that each U.S. president must be fully responsible for his actions. It then moves forward in time to examine the extent to which Bush failed Read More

How's Your News? On the Campaign Trail

The Fever

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Moore, Angelina Jolie, Joely Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia, Geraldine James

Synopsis: Director Carlo Gabriel Nero brings actor/playwright Wallace Shawn's controversial study of the growing chasm between the first and third world from stage to screen with this tale of a privileged woman whose reality suddenly suffers a profound shift. A bourgeois woman awakens suffering from a Read More

The Party's Over

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

Bowling For Columbine

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, Marilyn Manson

Synopsis: Filmmaker, author, and political activist Michael Moore trains his satirical eye on America's obsession with guns and violence in his third feature-length documentary, which gets its title from a pair of loosely related incidents. On April 20, 1999, shortly before they began their infamous killing Read More

Lucky Numbers

Actors: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: While lots of people dream of winning the lottery, one man hatches a more ambitious plan than just buying a ticket and hoping for the best in this satiric comedy. Russ Richards (John Travolta), a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both Read More

The Awful Truth: Season 02

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: For the second season of The Awful Truth, host Michael Moore offers a slight change in format. Instead of opening each program with a monolog before a studio audience, he begins each show by greeting the viewer from Times Square. This street-level approach also allows for a number of impromptu Read More

The Awful Truth: Season 01

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: The first season of Michael Moore's television show The Awful Truth consists of 12 episodes and is a sound introduction for those unfamiliar with Moore's guerilla style of social-conscience filmmaking. After his original show, TV Nation, was canceled by NBC, Moore moved to Bravo, a more Read More

The Big One

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: Comedic documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes his film crew throughout the U.S. for The Big One, a behind-the-scenes video diary of the promotional tour for his book Downsize This! He appears at several chain bookstores throughout the nation, signing autographs and delivering wicked political Read More

TV Nation, Vol. 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two episodes of political humorist Michael Moore's seminal weekly TV series are included here, comprising such memorable segments as the search for good real estate in New York's Love Canal and the investigation of cab drivers who pass up African-American riders -- in favor of convicted Caucasian Read More

TV Nation, Vol. 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Riding high on the explosive documentary successes of Roger & Me and The Big One, the outspoken Michael Moore cleans up on network television. He only had a small crew, but carried more than his share of journalistic curiosity. The results came in the form of TV Nation, a weekly show dedicated to Read More

Mad About You: The Birth, Part 1

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. This expected blessed event coincides with the unexpected film-festival triumph of Jamie's husband, Paul (Paul Reiser) -- who'da thunk that "Buchman" would win an award over a Michael Moore project? Read More

Canadian Bacon

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn

Synopsis: In Michael Moore's political satire, the U.S. president (Alan Alda) decides to wage a cold war against Canada in an attempt to reverse his slipping popularity, and, as a result, he drives a small group of incensed Canadians to take matters into their own hands. Alda is the first president in years Read More

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moore

Synopsis: Following his breakthrough 1989 documentary Roger & Me, Michael Moore revisits his hometown in the 23-minute short film Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint. Unfortunately, he finds things have gotten worse for Flint residents following the loss of 30,000 jobs in the auto industry. Moore pays a visit Read More

Blood in the Face

Synopsis: Blending archival and interview footage, Blood in the Face is a close-up examination of the emergence of far-right-wing groups in the United States in the early '90s. The film takes its title from the central myth of these groups, that because only whites can blush, only they feel shame, and Read More

Roger & Me

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pat Boone, Michael Moore

Synopsis: Michael Moore's wickedly iconoclastic documentary was inspired by the decline and fall of Flint, Michigan. Once the site of a thriving General Motors plant, Flint went quickly to seed when GM decided to close down and move out. As Moore pokes around what has been described by one magazine as "the Read More