All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

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Movie Info

Giant media conglomerates are increasingly reluctant to investigate or criticize government policies, particularly on defense, security and intelligence issues. They are ceding responsibility for holding governments and corporations accountable to the independent journalists and filmmakers who risk their careers, their freedom and their lives in war zones to expose the truth. With government deception rampant, independent voices are crucially important.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Fred Peabody
Producer:

Peter Raymont, Andrew Munger, Steve Ord
Release Date (Streaming):

May 13, 2017
Runtime:

1h 31m
Production Co:

White Pine Pictures

Cast & Crew

Fred Peabody
Director

Peter Raymont
Producer

Andrew Munger
Producer

Steve Ord
Producer

John Westheuser
Cinematographer

Critic Reviews for All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (1)

You won't learn much about Stone from watching this, but thanks to some of the participants, you'll learn about some criminally underreported stories.

April 17, 2020 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
It lucidly argues that powerful interests have been creating supercharged fake stories for decades to advance their own nefarious interests. And the institutional media have too often blithely played along.

December 9, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Simon Houpt
Globe and Mail
Even if you belong to the choir it's preaching to, it has the rare distinction of being a movie you can agree and argue with at the same time.

November 6, 2016 | Full Review…

Owen Gleiberman
Variety
Featuring footage from the last six decades, "All Governments Lie" is a timely, convincing documentary that will cause audiences to question what they see and read.

November 3, 2016 | Full Review…

Kimber Myers
Los Angeles Times
In an era of disaster- and celebrity-obsessed cable news, during an election testing the virtues of objectivity, the documentary All Governments Lie is worthy testimony that many journalists are in it for the truth.

November 2, 2016 | Full Review…

Daphne Howland
Village Voice
The so-so documentary -- and 'so-so' because progressives will not be surprised by its revelations.

August 3, 2018 | Full Review…

Charles Mudede
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
All Governments Lie expands its critical scope by tracking down other deceptive public institutions whose credibility also deserves debunking, mainly corporate organizations and the mass media.

November 14, 2017 | Full Review…

Alysia Urrutia
Cinema Scope
This is a vital time for director Fred Peabody's documentary All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone.

August 29, 2017 | Full Review…

Diane Carson
KDHX (St. Louis)
Let's face it: Reality is getting too strange for filmmakers to keep up. That said, All Governments Lie does offer an important cautionary point in the midst of Trump's increasingly authoritarian presidency.

February 24, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Randall King
Winnipeg Free Press
Filmmakers can't possibly predict what the world will look like when their movie actually gets released. Sometimes you get lucky.

January 27, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Robert Horton
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)
Useful survey of the left media but the notion of I.F. Stone having something in common with millionaire blue-dog Democrat Michael Moore is patently absurd.

November 4, 2016 | Full Review…

Louis Proyect
Counterpunch.org
A tribute to independent journalist I. F. Stone and contemporary journalists who continue his adversarial spirit.

November 4, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice