A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self - Tel Aviv University
- (archive footage)
- Self - Journalist
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUp until the release of Mark Achbar's film The Corporation (2003), this was the most successful documentary in Canadian history, playing theatrically in over 300 cities worldwide. It won 22 awards and appeared in more than 50 international film festivals.
- Quotes
Noam Chomsky: It means you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. Now that's extremely hard to do alone. The beauty of our system is that is isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone. Some people can but it's pretty rare. The way to do it is with organization. So of course if there's to be intellectual self defence, it will have to be in the context of political and other organization.
- Crazy creditsCanadian and U.S. copyright laws allow "fair dealing" and "fair use" of a copyrighted work for purposes such as comment, criticism, reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, review and quotation.
- ConnectionsEdited from L'affaire Bronswik (1978)
- SoundtracksFor What It's Worth
Written by Stephen Stills
Performed by Buffalo Springfield
Produced by Charles Greene and Brian Stone
Courtesy of Ten East Music, Springalo & Cotillion (BMI)
Published by Warner-Tamerlan Publishing Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
© Warner/Chappell Music Inc.
If you value your intelligence, if you don't believe a pre-fabricated word of what the media machine throws at you, if you want to fight to keep your intellect alive and your own individual thinking original, if you are sick and tired of how this world is NOW and passionately want to change it for the better, then this movie is for you. The movie and accompanying book claim to be primers in intellectual self-defense, which they certainly are but beyond that, they also serve to showcase the many talents of linguist/political dissident/writer/philosopher/professor Noam Chomsky.
I'm surprised the movie didn't win a Best Documentary Oscar, which it certainly should have, perhaps more than anything it just goes to show you that the contents of this movie probably strike too close to home and make the media elite squirm in their seats.
Take 3 hours off some Sunday afternoon instead of watching the football game and WATCH THIS MOVIE, you won't regret it! The movie leaves you with an immense feeling of hope and a profound sense that each one of us can do something actively and constructively in order to make this a better world to live in. If you're apolitical now and/or politically inactive, you won't be after you watch this movie. Guaranteed.
- aurora7_athena
- Jul 30, 2001
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Fabryka konsensusu - Noam Chomsky i media
- Filming locations
- Erin Mills Mall - 5100 Erin Mills Parkway, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada(as Erin Mills Town Centre)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime2 hours 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1