90 minutos
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.
Michael Barone
Self
David Boaz
Self
Donna Brazile
Self
Mona Charen
Self
Noam Chomsky
Self (archive footage)
Lee Edwards
Self
Thomas Frank
Self
Michael Kazin
Self
G. Gordon Liddy
Self (archive footage)
Norman Ornstein
Self
Kevin Phillips
Self
David Stoesz
Self
Adrian Wooldridge
Self
Howard Zinn
Self (archive footage)
