All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

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All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016

1h 31m

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15 Reviews

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Giant media conglomerates are increasingly reluctant to investigate or criticize government policies, particularly on defense, security and intelligence issues. They are ceding responsibility for holding governments and corporations accountable to the independent journalists and filmmakers who risk their careers, their freedom and their lives in war zones to expose the truth. With government deception rampant, independent voices are crucially important.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

You won't learn much about Stone from watching this, but thanks to some of the participants, you'll learn about some criminally underreported stories.

Apr 17, 2020

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Simon Houpt

Globe and Mail

It lucidly argues that powerful interests have been creating supercharged fake stories for decades to advance their own nefarious interests. And the institutional media have too often blithely played along.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 9, 2016

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Even if you belong to the choir it's preaching to, it has the rare distinction of being a movie you can agree and argue with at the same time.

Nov 6, 2016

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

The so-so documentary -- and 'so-so' because progressives will not be surprised by its revelations.

Aug 3, 2018

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Alysia Urrutia

Cinema Scope

All Governments Lie expands its critical scope by tracking down other deceptive public institutions whose credibility also deserves debunking, mainly corporate organizations and the mass media.

Nov 14, 2017

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Diane Carson

KDHX (St. Louis)

This is a vital time for director Fred Peabody's documentary All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone.

Aug 29, 2017

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Audience Member

Splendid and captivating exposition of the consolidation of media in the U.S., and the consequences of the shrinking of the breadth public information and impact of the "manufacture of consent." The segment on mass immigrant burials by John Carlos Frey, for which under reported work he won a Polk Award, is by itself worth the price of admission.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

The social function of journalism to preserve with truth our freedoms & democracy has been compromised out of existence by corporate journalism.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Giant media conglomerates are increasingly reluctant to investigate or criticize government policies, particularly on defense, security and intelligence issues. They are ceding responsibility for holding governments and corporations accountable to the independent journalists and filmmakers who risk their careers, their freedom and their lives in war zones to expose the truth. With government deception rampant, independent voices are crucially important.

Director: Fred Peabody
Producer: Peter Raymont, Andrew Munger, Steve Ord
Production Co: White Pine Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 13, 2017
Runtime: 1h 31m

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