American Blackout

Name: American Blackout
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 22, 2006
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 61

2006

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Release Date: September 22, 2006

Summary: Whatever you think you know about our election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. American Blackout critically examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence voices of political dissent. (GuerillaWhatever you think you know about our election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. American Blackout critically examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence voices of political dissent. (Guerilla News Network)… Expand

Director: Ian Inaba

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 92 min

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Neva Chonin

The film is ultimately as much an indictment of liberal apathy as of conservative dirty dealing, and a canonization of McKinney for her continued refusal to follow any party's party line. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Though occasionally inflammatory -- one interviewee talks about being "slingshotted into slavery" -- American Blackout isn’t a conspiracy rant. It's a methodical compilation of questions and irregularities that deserves a wider audience. Read full review

Melissa Levine

This passionate polemic follows Democratic representative Cynthia McKinney, of Georgia, as she campaigns to bring attention to the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

An illuminating, infuriating document that paints McKinney as a true American heroine and patriot and confirms your worst fears about just how rotten our "democratic" process is at its core. Read full review

Michael Ferraro

Seeing stories about politicians like this that are so strongly passionate and enduring uplifts our feelings of dread towards politics. If only more politicians followed her example, perhaps we wouldn’t be in the current state we are in today. Read full review

Jack Mathews

The movie includes a postscript about her (McKinney's) loss, blaming it on more dirty tricks. That may be true, but it doesn't put the steam back in the film. Read full review

Robert Koehler

If all that Ian Inaba's latest Guerilla News Network missive, American Blackout, wants to do is get left Democrats worked up into a lather of righteous anger at crafty Republicans, it does so at the expense of speaking to any other group of Americans. As such, docu is extremely limited and almost without purpose except as an organizing tool for party foot soldiers. Read full review

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