Fred Peabody
All Governments Lie
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All Governments Lie

All Governments Lie

Fred Peabody

2016
90 min.
Canada
English
Subtitles: Catalan and Spanish

A timely documentary for audiences who are more now than ever seeking alternatives to news media owned by huge corporations.

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Direction
Fred Peabody
Executive Production
Jeff Cohen, Oliver Stone
Sound
Sanjay Mehta, Peter Sawade, Jason Milligan
Distribution
DocsBarcelona Distribution
Production
Peter Raymont, Andrew Munger, Steve Ord
Edition
Jim Munro, James Yates
Music
Mark Korven
Photography
John Westheuser
Synopsis

Independent journalists Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi and others are changing the face of journalism, providing investigative alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets. Greenwald was the lead reporter on the revelations of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Scahill wrote Dirty Wars – the book and Oscar-nominated film on secret U.S. government assassinations. Our cameras follow as they expose government and corporate deception – just as the ground-breaking journalist I.F. Stone did decades ago.

With government deception rampant, and intrusion of state surveillance into private life never more egregious, many journalists are finding that to aggressively investigate governments rather than act as “stenographers to power”, they need to abandon mainstream corporate news media to work at alternative, web-based sites.

A timely documentary for audiences who are more now than ever seeking alternatives to news media owned by huge corporations. All Governments Lie will change the way you watch and read the news forever.

About the direction
Fred Peabody

Fred Peabody

Director

Vancouver based Fred Peabody is an Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker whose credits include seven...

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Awards and festivals

Best of Fests · IDFA
Netherlands, 2016
TIFF-Toronto International Film Festival
Canada, 2016
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Reviews

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.

— Chicago Reader

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.

— Variety

Featuring footage from the last six decades, "All Governments Lie" is a timely, convincing documentary that will cause audiences to question what they see and read.

— Los Angeles Times
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