Michael Moore Collection

Starring: n/a
Directed by: Michael Moore
Review: Dave Burbidge
Release date: Jan 2008 £29.99

A collection of three of Moore's most hard hitting documentaries, though they all seem to be vehicles pushing his own alternative view of American culture.

In Bowling for Columbine he looks at gun culture in particular how easy it is to get weapons (the crew even visit a bank which hands out rifles when customers open a new account) and contrasts this with some of the high school massacres that have occured when disaffected youths have murdered their classmates. At one stage he belittles Charlton Heston who is a spokesman for the NRA.

In Farenheit 911 he looks at the complex business ties between the Bush family and the Bin Ladens, though claims about certain flights being allowed after the nationwide clampdown have been subsequently disproved.

Finally in Sicko he examines the poor state of American health care. His latest, it investigates the United States health care system with a focus on for-profit health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the U.S. health care system with that of Canada's single-payer system and other universal health care systems, including those in France, the United Kingdom and Cuba. The film has been criticized for not discussing the drawbacks of universal health care in these countries.