Who is Michael Moore?Michael Moore is an American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director of four of the top documentaries of all time. He began his career as a journalist after dropping out of college. From journalism he turned to film making, his first film made him one of America's well known and most controversial documentary makers.
Michael Moore has made 11 documentaries as well as books and TV shows such as 'Michael Moore live'. He has been nominated and won many awards such as an oscar.
He is most well known for giving his opinion in public, his opinion is on topics such as politics or conspiracy theories and they are very strong opinions. Those who agree with his views respect him for having such courage, but those that disagree find he has challenged them and some people are very rude about him.
Sicko - 2007
This documentary by Michael Moore is very famous. In Sicko he compares the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations. He travelled to countries such as Canada and Great Britain in order to get a greater understanding of their health care. Many pharmecutical companies refused to take part in the interviews including GlaxoSmithKline. He showed their hospitals, staff - including doctors and even the patients. The shocking revellation drawn from this documentary was finding that in the USA prisoners have better medical treatment than people living in the USA. The film was the subject of some controversy when it became known that Moore went to Cuba with chronically ill September 11th rescue workers to shoot parts of the film. The United States is looking into whether this violates the trade embargo. The film is currently ranked the third highest grossing documentary of all time and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
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