Michael Moore Filmography

Born:
January 1, 1954 in Davison, MI
Occupation:
Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:
Author, filmmaker, and political activist Michael Moore has developed a trademark style of tackling major issues with a sharp sense of humor while maintaining a regular-guy attitude, an approach that has helped him secure a reputation as both a razor-sharp humorist and one of America's most...Read More
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  • Untitled Fahrenheit 9/11 Sequel

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Moore

    Synopsis: Michael Moore returns to familiar territory with this follow-up to his smash hit Fahrenheit 9/11, examining the events that have come after the 2004 film. Bob and Harvey Weinstein executive produce the film, but won't be involved in its distribution, with Moore opting instead to deal with Overture Read More

    1/1/09
  • 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

    6/29/07
  • 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

    2007
  • 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

    1/1/07
  • 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

    9/13/06
  • 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

    8/5/05
  • 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

    2005
  • 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

    7/23/04
  • 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

    6/23/04
  • 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

    6/4/04
  • 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

    2004
  • 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

    1/1/04
  • 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

    2004
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  • 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

    2004
  • 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

    10/24/03
  • 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

    10/11/02
  • 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

    10/27/00
  • 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

    2000
  • 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

    1999
  • 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

    1997
  • 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

    1997
  • 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

    1997
  • 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

    1997
  • 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

    1994
  • 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

    1992
  • 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

    1991
  • 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

    12/20/89

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