Oliver Stone spent 4 years making this because your history teacher was lying to you.
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
Direction
Stone's unhinged narration treats JFK assassination like casual small talk.
Editing
Jarring juxtapositions of propaganda films with brutal archival footage.
Writing
Wallace's ignored presidency gets the tragic hero treatment he deserved.
Director
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
Narrator
Vasili Arkhipov
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Henry A. Wallace
Self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stone personally financed most of this after every major network passed, calling it 'too depressing for American audiences.'
The series sparked actual curriculum changes in several countries, while American schools largely ignored it — proving Stone's point about selective historical memory.
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