Dreams from My Real Father (2012)

Directed by

Joel Gilbert

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary promotes a conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama's father. It claims that Obama's biological father was a different man than previously known, a poet and labor activist. The film's allegations are not supported by evidence and have been widely criticized.

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What happens

Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception is a 2012 American film by Joel Gilbert. It presents his conspiracy theory that U.S. President Barack Obama's biological father was Frank Marshall Davis, an American poet and labor activist in Chicago and Hawaii, rather than Barack Obama Sr. The film claims that Davis, who had been a closet member of the Communist Party USA, influenced Obama's ideology, a claim disputed by Obama biographer David Remnick. The title is derived from Obama's memoir about his early life, Dreams from My Father (1995). Reviews of the film were generally negative, noting that Gilbert had not proved any of his allegations, and the film was described as a "pseudo-documentary" and in "bad taste". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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