David Boaz

A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents Janek Ambros' directorial debut. The feature doc tackles the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties and the strange coalition it's creating between the progressive left and libertarian right. The doc examines the NSA, drones, the war on journalism and other encroachments on civil liberties started by the Bush era and expanded by the Democratic establishment.

Sous l'administration du président républicain Donald Trump, les États-Unis d'Amérique sont un pays profondément divisé : un côté nourrit le populisme et la rectitude religieuse dans un paysage monochrome, peint en blanc, déplorant un passé qui ne reviendra jamais ; l'autre côté alimente la diversité et le multiculturalisme, une vision biaisée d'un avenir progressiste, plutôt improbable. Les deux parties s'affrontent constamment, sans s'écouter l'une l'autre. Seules quelques personnes raisonnables se réunissent pour changer cette situation potentiellement dangereuse.

This documentary fulfills a unique niche by taking a non-partisan, unbiased approach to the history of Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States. The film starts at the foundation of the country and continues though the 2006 election. Scholars, authors, historians and partisan activists are used not only to tell the history of each movement, but also to show how the meaning of each term has changed over time. Modern Conservatism is depicted as arising from opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, becoming a national movement in the 1960's and reaching its apex with Ronald Reagan. Modern Liberalism has its roots in the progressive era of the 1890's becoming dominant with the New Deal, and losing influence with the perceived failures of the "Great Society programs" and Vietnam war policies of Lyndon Johnson.