
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story of the undermining of democracy in America. Focusing on events leading up to election day and the foiled attempt to count legally cast votes, it examines the suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices and voter purges in Florida - a state governed by the winning candidate's brother.... (Full plot summary below)
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Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story of the undermining of democracy in America. Focusing on events leading up to election day and the foiled attempt to count legally cast votes, it examines the suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices and voter purges in Florida - a state governed by the winning candidate's brother.
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| OregonianShawn LevyThe finished products are more serious and well-crafted than that, giving voice to the concerns of credible experts and eyewitnesses, and mounting relatively low-key, cautiously reasoned arguments. |
| Reno Gazette-JournalMark Robison"Unprecedented" is a great way to learn more about one of the biggest stories in American politics. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenSlicker, better-documented and more convincing than most documentaries on this subject. |
| User ReviewPrivate UWhy is it so difficult for all 50 states to have electronic voting machines with a paper record? |
| User ReviewAmy SSilly America...Democracy is for other countries...unbelievable what goes on behind the scenes...sad. |
| User ReviewPatrick GThis is a short documentary. It's a little rough around the edges, but it's the first documentary I've seen that really explains why those ballots in Florida were so damned confusing. I know the media made fun of the "hanging chad," but when you see it for yourself, there really was legitimate confusion and a heck of a lot of problems in Florida. A must see for any Political Science nut. |
| User ReviewMasorad (Democracy? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! |
| User ReviewMaxwell JMust see. Stealing American elections is a snap. Watch the poll watchers. |
| User ReviewBobby DAs long as there has been democracies partisans have been trying to figure out how to rig or "game" the election systems. This doc easily could have been titled Election Rigging 101. New and inventive ways of taking old tricks and making them new. Covers the 2000 election and it's aftermath. If you vote on a computerized system you should be very afraid. |
| User ReviewEric NA solid piece of agit-prop on one of the greatest frauds of our age... Brave New Films cinematographer Richard Ray Perez and fellow film maker Joan Sekler teamed up with Oscar-nominated veteran editor William Haugse (â??Hoop Dreamsâ??) for this fascinating little muck-racking expose which picked up numerous awards on the festival circuit and was the first of the â??Un-trilogyâ?? from Exec. Producer Robert Greenwald. The first part exposes the underhand tactics used by Secretary of State of Florida Katherine Harris to remove mainly Black voters from the electoral roll, the second part chronicles the turbulent recount process eventually blocked by a US Supreme Court ruling and a 2004 epilogue reveals the dangers of computer balloting. Danny Glover provides a curiously stilted 2004 framing for the film, sparsely narrated by Peter Coyote, which is driven by revealing interviews with journalists, such as the great Greg Palast and Jake Tapper, as well as those, such as election supervisors Pam Iorio and Ion Sancho, who were actually caught up in the fraud. The debut filmmakers wisely chose to eschew editorialising themselves and rely instead on the interviewees to drive and shape the story which as well as racking Katherine Harris over the coals ensures that the politically motivated ruling of the Supreme Court and the anti-democratic decisions of Al Gore do not go un-scrutinized in a solid piece of agit-prop. â??The identity of the loser is perfectly clear.â?? |