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19 unusual facts about Michael Moore


Buick City

The failure of auto manufacturing in Flint was lamented in Michael Moore's documentary film, Roger & Me.

Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States

In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, the President and CEO of University Health Network, Toronto, said that Michael Moore's film Sicko "exaggerated the performance of the Canadian health system — there is no doubt that too many patients still stay in our emergency departments waiting for admission to scarce hospital beds."

Costume Contest

Kevin (dressed as Michael Moore) and Andy (Bill Compton) start a false rumor that Pam doesn't want people going to Danny's party, which incites Danny to confront Jim and Pam in order to determine the validity of the rumor.

Donald Regan

Michael Moore gives brief focus to this incident in his documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, who then proceeds to insinuate that Reagan was merely chosen a frontman (or "sheriff") for the real power behind the throne, among them Regan, who at the time was the Chairman of Merrill Lynch and whom Reagan appointed as Treasury Secretary and then Chief of Staff.

Guantanamo detainees' medical care

Documentary film director Michael Moore used these claims as a central meme in his film Sicko to argue that American citizens should receive better medical care.

Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life

Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life is an autobiography by American filmmaker Michael Moore.

Know Your Rights

The song is featured on the compilation album, Songs and Artists That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11, which followed up the 2004 documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 by filmmaker Michael Moore, where the track listing was selected by Moore based on the songs and the artists he listened to while creating the documentary.

Liam Chambers

Knowledge and Piety: Michael Moore’s Career at the University of Paris and Collège de France, 1701-20 in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, vol.

Life Under Mike

It was partially funded by American Filmmaker Michael Moore after Motluk met Moore at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Mile High Stadium

The stadium was featured in Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine as the backdrop for Moore's interview with controversial rock musician Marilyn Manson during the 2001 Ozzfest tour.

Pizza Pizza

A chapter of Michael Moore's book Downsize This! advises illegal immigrants who want to sneak into Canada at Niagara Falls to memorize Pizza Pizza's Toronto number to appear Canadian.

Rebels and Redcoats

And a little like Michael Moore's polemical films, the documentary delivers its most striking indictments not in the facts but in the sly visual juxtapositions.

Regional Airline Association

In his film Capitalism: A Love Story, director and film producer Michael Moore profiled how little most regional pilots are paid in the first few years of their careers.

Roy Sekoff

Before helping launch The Huffington Post, he was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore’s Emmy-winning TV Nation.

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi

Footage of the incident was later incorporated into the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Soundtrack to War

Seventeen of the early-filmed scenes from the documentary were used in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

The Airzone Solution

Investigative filmmaker Al Dunbar (Davison) has been working with Anthony Stanwick (McCoy), the head of one radical environmental group on a Michael Moore-style exposé documentary on AirZone.

The Girl in the Café

Michael Moore-ism has its place in this world, but not on the BBC, and not at the taxpayer's expense.

Who's Gonna Save Us?

The song appeared on the soundtrack and in a television commercial for Michael Moore's 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11.


American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

According to the distributor's website, the film has also received endorsements from personalities like Mark Achbar, Michael Moore and others like author and historian Charles Glass and Canadian born actor Saul Rubinek.

Anti-war movement

The current American war in Iraq has also generated significant artistic anti-war works, including film maker Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which holds the box-office record for documentary films, and Canadian musician Neil Young's 2006 album Living with War.

Ars Americana Ars Politica

The principal examples of American literature that Swirski discusses in detail are: Irving Wallace’s The Man (1964), Richard Condon’s Death of a Politician (1978), P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores (1991; 2003), Warren Beatty’s script and film Bulworth (1998), and Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men... and Other Sorry Excises for the State of the Nation (2002; 2004).

Blood in the Face

According to the audio commentary on the Roger & Me DVD, Academy Award-winning American filmmaker Michael Moore appears as an off-screen interviewer because he was originally contacted to arrange a meeting between the filmmakers and the supremacists since he had previously interviewed them for a magazine.

Flint Sit-Down Strike

Other notable participants in the sit-down strike were future D-Day hero and Greco-Roman wrestling champion Dean Rockwell, labor leader and future UAW president Walter Reuther, and the uncle of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose debut feature Roger & Me contains a clip from the strike.

Harlan Jacobson

Jacobson's interview with Michael Moore ("Michael & Me") in the December 1989 edition of Film Comment Magazine for the film Roger & Me sparked an international debate over the methodology of Moore's misrepresentation of then General Motors CEO Roger Smith in the film.

International Documentary Association

The magazine features profiles of leading filmmakers like Michael Apted, Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog, among others.

ITV News Lookaround

Two members of the UK Government - Scottish Secretary of State Michael Moore and deputy David Mundell (both MPs in the Border region) - backed ITV's proposal for a Border current affairs programme while the Scottish Government called for STV programming (including Scotland Tonight) to be simulcast.

Liberal Democrat Voice

Contributors to Liberal Democrat Voice include Lib Dem MPs such as Jeremy Browne, Lynne Featherstone, Chris Huhne, Michael Moore, Andrew Stunell, Sarah Teather and Jenny Willott as well as peers such as Chris Rennard.

Mal Washer

The group was set up in 1993 after a meeting in Canberra convened by Michael Moore (ACT Assembly) and Ann Symonds (MLC, NSW).

Merrill Markoe

She appeared on-camera as a lifestyle reporter at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, then for Michael Moore's NBC show TV Nation, and worked on other magazine shows such as Lifetime Magazine.

Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man

Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man is a book by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke about author and filmmaker Michael Moore, criticizing him and his works.

Mountain Passages

It was released on the Greenleaf Music label in 2005 and features performances by Douglas, Michael Moore, Marcus Rojas Peggy Lee, and Dylan van der Schyff.

Naomi Klein

On November 10, 2011, she participated in a panel discussion about the future of Occupy Wall Street with four other panelists, including Michael Moore, William Greider, and Rinku Sen, in which she stressed the crucial nature of the evolving movement.

Occupy Buffalo

On November 17, 2011 filmmaker Michael Moore spoke directly to members of Occupy Buffalo in a YouTube video encouraging them make their voice heard and not to pull back on their efforts despite the winter weather approaching.

Salter Street Films

Based on their reputation for political satire, American documentary film-maker Michael Moore approached Salter Street to produce his Bowling for Columbine project.

This Divided State

This Divided State is a documentary by first-time filmmaker Steven Greenstreet that details the conflict that erupted at Utah Valley State College, now called Utah Valley University, when controversial figure Michael Moore was scheduled to come speak on campus shortly before the 2004 presidential election.