Bowling for Columbine

Author

Michael Moore

Call Number

• DVD 363.33 B7874 2018 (CEN)

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Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Michael Moore, narrator.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: R, some violent images and language.

Summary

In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the intrepid documentarian Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the nation locked and loaded. Equipped with a camera and a microphone, Moore follows the trail of bullets from Littleton, Colorado, and Flint, Michigan, all the way to Kmart's Michigan headquarters and NRA president Charlton Heston's Beverly Hills mansion, meeting shooting survivors, militia members, mild-mannered Canadians, and musician Marilyn Manson along the way. An unprecedented popular success that helped usher in a new era in documentary filmmaking, the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine is a raucous, impassioned, and still tragically relevant journey through the American psyche.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary in 2002.

Special features: New high-definition digital restoration ; Michael Moore makes a movie, a new documentary featuring Moore, chief archivist Carl Deal, field producers Jeff Gibbs and Meghan O'Hara, and supervising producer Tia Lessin ; programs covering Moore's return to Colorado in 2002, his 2003 Oscar win, and three film-festival interviews with Moore ; excerpt from a 2002 episode of The Charlie Rose show featuring Moore ; "Corporate cops," a 2000 segment from Moore's television series The awful truth ; trailer.