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Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore is a progressive American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut documentary Roger & Me, a scathing look at the downfall of the automotive industry in 1980s Flint and Detroit.
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culture · American filmmaker and author (born 1954) · film director · television presenter · journalist · comedian · autobiographer · writer · screenwriter · film actor · peace activist · film producer · also Michael Moore, Moore
Born 23 April 1954 · Q174908
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2026· 4 entries
“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it”
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“The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,633 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 1,001, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “The 7th Dinner – Live”.
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: ‘Yes, I condemn murder’: Michael Moore responds to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto
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The Guardian: Michael Moore on how Harris-Walz can defeat Trump: ‘Do weird and cringe until the debate, then nail him’
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Released album “'22”.
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AP News rated the claim “A video shows liberal filmmaker Michael Moore supporting former President Donald Trump in 2024.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced his support of former U.S. President Donald Trump for reelection in 2024.” False.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Through the Lion’s Gate”.
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘I never doubted it’: why film-maker Michael Moore forecast ‘blue tsunami’ in midterms
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The Guardian: ‘I’m deadly serious’: why film-maker Michael Moore is confident of a Democratic midterm win
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Released album “Live During Lockdown”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “The Gift”.
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Released album “Amulet”.
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2020· 7 entries
The Guardian: Michael Moore warns that Donald Trump is on course to repeat 2016 win
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The Guardian: Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans removed from YouTube
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The Guardian: How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right? | George Monbiot
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The Guardian: Once again Michael Moore stirs the environmental pot – but conservationists turn up the heat on him
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The Guardian: Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
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The Guardian: Planet of the Humans review – contrarian eco-doc from the Michael Moore stable
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Released album “Bouche perdue”.
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Slips”.
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Moore tweeted: "I guess they think a country dumb enough to elect Trump is stupid enough to believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide
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Claimed: “"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Michael Moore’s media turf war
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Released his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and the first term of Donald Trump
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2017· 3 entries
Claimed: ““People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04 percent of all gun murders in the US. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them.”” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Director Michael Moore was accused of sexual harassment by a 16-year-old film extra.” False.
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Moore planned to return to prime time network television on Turner/TNT in late 2017 or early 2018 with a program called "Michael Moore Live from the Apocalypse"
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2016· 4 entries
Election lost: 2016 Presidential election.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Michael Moore has endorsed Donald Trump for president.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bill Maher and Michael Moore sneaked onto Donald Trump's plane and stole his tax returns.” False.
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Campaign: 2016 Presidential election.
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2013· 1 entry
Moore assessed the Affordable Care Act, calling it "awful" and adding that "Obamacare's rocky start
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Coconut”.
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Released album “Choices”.
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2011· 1 entry
Spoke at the Occupy Oakland protest site to express his support
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2009· 3 entries
Capitalism: A Love Story analyzes the 2008 financial crisis and the U
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Moore faced criticism for using non-union workers to produce his film Capitalism: A Love Story
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Co-founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival, also held annually in Traverse City, where Moore helped to spearhead the renovation of the historic downtown State Theater
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Fragile”.
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Moore endorsed Barack Obama for president, stating that Hillary Clinton's recent actions had been "disgusting"
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2007· 2 entries
Receiving a lengthy standing ovation, and was released in the U
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Moore became a contributing journalist at OpEdNews, and by May 2014, had authored over 70 articles published on their website
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2005· 4 entries
Time named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people
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In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.
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Moore founded the Traverse City Film Festival held annually in Traverse City, Michigan
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“s president to dismantle the organization, but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult. Gun rights supporters such as Dave Kopel said there was no chance of that happening; David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote that Moore failed to discover that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors. In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world”
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2004· 4 entries
Awarded Palme d'Or for Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).
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Did a cameo, as a news journalist, in The Fever, starring Vanessa Redgrave in the lead
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When he used the term "deserter" to describe then president George W
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Examines America in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, particularly the record of the George W
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Foreign Film for Bowling for Columbine (2003).
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Guest starred as himself on The Simpsons episode "The President Wore Pearls", stating that children who do not receive music, gym and art are more likely to become unemployed and end up in one of his movies
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The Wall Street Journal said that Bowling for Columbine was "filled with so many inaccuracies and distortions that it ought to be classed as a work of fiction
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for Bowling for Columbine (2002).
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Probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States, taking, as a starting point, the Columbine High School massacre of 1999
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Released album “Floating 1…2…3”.
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2001· 1 entry
“(2000) R.E.M.: All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)”
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2000· 1 entry
Campaign: 2000 presidential election.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “The Voice Is The Matter”.
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Did a cameo in EDtv as one of the panel members
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Song for Ma”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “MGM Trio”.
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1994· 3 entries
“What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.”
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“You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.”
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For 9 episodes and again for 8 episodes on Fox in 1995
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1986· 1 entry
Moore was fired in early September
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1980· 2 entries
“The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they”
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“The next wave of fascists will not come with cattle cars and concentration camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show ... That’s how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over.”
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-04-23.
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