Oliver Stone's new documentary "Untold History of the United States"

[Stratford57]

Oliver Stone thinks Americans were not taught the history in a proper way, so he has just created a 10-part Showtime series and a 750-page companion volume called “The Untold History of the United States,” which begins with World War I and ends with the first Obama administration. It’s an Oliver Stone version of a History Channel documentary, one guaranteed to raise the ires of both left and right and where all roads lead to Vietnam. From where Stone sits, World War II begot the cold war, which landed us in Vietnam, a manifestation of American imperialism, which led inexorably to our current battle in Afghanistan. We have, Stone says, been sold a fairy tale masquerading as history, and it is so blinding it may ultimately undo us. “You have to understand what it was like to be a Roman empire and to find some barbarian tribe riding into Rome in 476 A.D.,” Stone said. “It’s quite a shock. And that’s what will happen to us unless we change our attitude about what our role in the world is. Every story out of most newspapers is ‘the Americans think this, the administration thinks this.’ It’s always about our controlling the pieces on the chessboard. I think what the Arabs have shown us is that we don’t control the chess pieces. And this is a shock to many people. But it’s definitely in ‘The Greatest Generation.’ And it’s in Spielberg’s World War II film, and it’s in Ridley Scott’s ‘Black Hawk Down.’ These are wonderful-looking films, but the message is perverted.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/oliver-stone-rewrites-history-again.html?pagewanted=all

Way to watch the documentary:
Showtime Oliver Stone s Untold History of the United States Oliver Stone

 

[Moonglow]

You would have to be very naive to not think that the US uses it's position to get what it wants....

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Oliver Stone is a self-possessed moron. His movies and faux historical exposés suck. Speaking of sucking, if Stone wasn't sucking Hollywood's marxist cock, nobody would ever have heard of him.

 

[Dot Com]

Oliver Stone is a self-possessed moron. His movies and faux historical exposés suck. Speaking of sucking, if Stone wasn't sucking Hollywood's marxist cock, nobody would ever have heard of him.

you couldn't squeeze one more swear word in there you rw FAILTroll asswipe? Go to the coffee shop where you belong. You'll feel right at home.

As for the series, Stone has real world and academic experience to put together such an undertaking.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Oliver Stone is a self-possessed moron. His movies and faux historical exposés suck. Speaking of sucking, if Stone wasn't sucking Hollywood's marxist cock, nobody would ever have heard of him.

you couldn't squeeze one more swear word in there you rw FAILTroll asswipe? Go to the coffee shop where you belong. You'll feel right at home.

As for the series, Stone has real world and academic experience to put together such an undertaking.

What "swear word"???

 

[Political Junky]

Maybe somewhere between the rewrite of history done by the Right and this series by Oliver Stone we'll find out the truth.

 

[Unkotare]

Let's see... a has-been crazyville lefty 'film maker' who is starving for attention. Hmmm...I wonder what this gem will be about...

 

[Politico]

Entertainment but not much fact.

 

[westwall]

I love the reference to the History Channel where in a memorable South Park episode the motto was changed to "where the truth....is history!" So true. Especially in Stone's warped view of the world.