Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004)

Directed by

Greg Palast

Genre

documentary film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 02m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary investigates the Bush family's political and business ties. It focuses on the disputed 2000 election and the lead-up to the Iraq War. The film argues that money and corporate influence shaped key decisions.

investigativecriticalpoliticalexposingurgentdisquietinginformativeprobing

What happens

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy is a 2004 documentary film directed by Steven Grandison and Greg Palast. The film, which examines various aspects of the presidency of George W. Bush, including the 2000 US presidential election and the Iraq War, is adapted from the 2003 BBC production Bush Family Fortunes and based on the 2002 book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by investigative journalist Palast, who had spent years tracking the Bush family for the BBC and The Guardian newspaper. The research for the original BBC film, which claims to have exposed the George W. Bush military service controversy, was also drawn upon by Michael Moore for Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and footage was used by Robert Greenwald in Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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