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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

  • 1992
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 47m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
4.9K
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
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A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

  • Directors
    • Mark Achbar
    • Peter Wintonick
  • Stars
    • Noam Chomsky
    • Mark Achbar
    • Karin Aguilar-San Juan
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    4.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Mark Achbar
      • Peter Wintonick
    • Stars
      • Noam Chomsky
      • Mark Achbar
      • Karin Aguilar-San Juan
    • 60User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 1 nomination

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    Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    • Self
    Mark Achbar
    Mark Achbar
    • Self - Interviewer
    Karin Aguilar-San Juan
    • Self - South End Collective
    Paul Andrews
    • Self - The Seattle Times
    William F. Buckley
    William F. Buckley
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
    Robert Faurisson
    • Self
    Jeff Greenfield
    Jeff Greenfield
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Jeff Hansen
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Loie Hayes
    • Self - South End Collective
    Edward S. Herman
    • Self
    Arnold Kohen
    • Self - Journalist
    Robert MacNeil
    Robert MacNeil
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Yossi Olmert
    • Self - Tel Aviv University
    • (archive footage)
    Lydia Sargent
    • Self - Z Magazine
    Greg Shackleton
    • Self - Journalist
    • (archive footage)
    Linda Trichter Metcalf
    • Self - Seminar Participant
    Peter Jennings
    Peter Jennings
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Mark Achbar
      • Peter Wintonick
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Up until the release of Mark Achbar's film The Corporation (2003), this was the most successful documentary in Canadian history, playing theatrically in over 300 cities worldwide. It won 22 awards and appeared in more than 50 international film festivals.
    • Quotes

      Noam Chomsky: It means you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. Now that's extremely hard to do alone. The beauty of our system is that is isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone. Some people can but it's pretty rare. The way to do it is with organization. So of course if there's to be intellectual self defence, it will have to be in the context of political and other organization.

    • Crazy credits
      Canadian and U.S. copyright laws allow "fair dealing" and "fair use" of a copyrighted work for purposes such as comment, criticism, reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, review and quotation.
    • Connections
      Edited from The Bronswik Affair (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      For What It's Worth
      Written by Stephen Stills

      Performed by Buffalo Springfield

      Produced by Charles Greene and Brian Stone

      Courtesy of Ten East Music, Springalo & Cotillion (BMI)

      Published by Warner-Tamerlan Publishing Corp.

      By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

      © Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

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    10/10
    Required Viewing for every citizen in the Free World
    This movie, like the title suggests is required viewing for every single person living in the free world. Not many movies can claim to start political and grass-roots movements but this one has.

    If you value your intelligence, if you don't believe a pre-fabricated word of what the media machine throws at you, if you want to fight to keep your intellect alive and your own individual thinking original, if you are sick and tired of how this world is NOW and passionately want to change it for the better, then this movie is for you. The movie and accompanying book claim to be primers in intellectual self-defense, which they certainly are but beyond that, they also serve to showcase the many talents of linguist/political dissident/writer/philosopher/professor Noam Chomsky.

    I'm surprised the movie didn't win a Best Documentary Oscar, which it certainly should have, perhaps more than anything it just goes to show you that the contents of this movie probably strike too close to home and make the media elite squirm in their seats.

    Take 3 hours off some Sunday afternoon instead of watching the football game and WATCH THIS MOVIE, you won't regret it! The movie leaves you with an immense feeling of hope and a profound sense that each one of us can do something actively and constructively in order to make this a better world to live in. If you're apolitical now and/or politically inactive, you won't be after you watch this movie. Guaranteed.
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    • aurora7_athena
    • Jul 31, 2001

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    • Release date
      • November 6, 1992 (Australia)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • Netherlands
      • Finland
      • Norway
      • Australia
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fabryka konsensusu - Noam Chomsky i media
    • Filming locations
      • Erin Mills Mall - 5100 Erin Mills Parkway, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada(as Erin Mills Town Centre)
    • Production companies
      • Necessary Illusions Productions Inc.
      • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
      • Téléfilm Canada
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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