Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)


Fahrenheit 9/11
Release Date17 May 2004
Budget$6,000,000
US Box Office$119,000,000
TaglineThe temperature where freedom burns!
GenreDocumentary, Comedy, History, War, Drama
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsBaghdad, Iraq
LanguageEnglish, Arabic
Sound MixDolby Digital
ColorColor
Film TypeDocumentary
Niche GenreCulture & Society [nf]
MoodFood for Thought
ThemesTerrorism, Political Corruption, Fighting the System
TonesIrreverent, Humorous, Poignant, Biting, Forceful, Confrontational
TagsAllegations, Anti War, Critic, Foreign Policy, Political Conflict, Political Crisis, September 11th, War On Terrorism
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media. The film holds the record for highest box office receipts by a general release political film. It is the highest grossing documentary of all time domestically.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Ben Affleck
Himself

Stevie Wonder
Himself

George W. Bush
Himself

James Baker III
Himself - Former Secretary of State

Richard Gephardt
Himself - Congressman

Tom Daschle
Himself - Senator

Jeffrey Toobin
Himself - Author of "Too Close to Call"

Al Gore
Himself - U.S. Vice President and Senate President

Condoleezza Rice
Herself - National Security Advisor

Donald Rumsfeld
Himself

Saddam Hussein
Himself

George Bush
Himself - Former U.S. President

Ricky Martin
Himself

Byron Dorgan
Himself - Senator in Subcommittee on Aviation

Osama bin Laden
Himself

Craig Unger
Himself - Interviewee

Larry King
Himself - On "Larry King Live"

Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
Himself - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to USA

Jack Cloonan
Himself - Interviewee as Retired FBI Agent

Bill Clinton
Himself

James C. Moore
Himself - Interviewee as Investigative Reporter and Author

Robert Jordan
Himself - James Baker's Law Partner

Dan Briody
Himself - Inteviewee as Author of "The Halliburton Agenda"

John Major
Himself

Helen Thomas
Herself - White House Correspondent

Carol Ashley
Herself -Interviewee as Mother of 9, 11 Victim

Thomas Kean
Himself - Chairman of 9, 11 Commission

Rosemary Dillard
Herself - Interviewee as Widow of 9, 11 Victim

Richard Clarke
Himself

Paul Wolfowitz
Himself

Dick Cheney
Himself

Tony Blair
Himself

Martha Brill Olcott
Herself - Interviewee as Unocal Project Consultant

Kenneth Lay
Himself

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashimi
Himself - Taliban Minister

Hamid Karzai
Himself

Zalmay Khalilzad
Himself

Jim McDermott
Himself - Interviewee as Psychiatrist

John Rivers
Himself - CEO of Executive Chute Corporation

Dave Bondy
Himself

Frances Stroik
Herself

Mel Stroik
Himself

Roy Gladding
Himself - Interviewee as Mayor of Tappahannock

Stanley Clarke
Himself - Interviewee as County Sheriff of Tappahannock

John Ashcroft
Himself - Attorney General and Songwriter

Thomas Pickard
Himself - Acting FBI Director

Aaron Kilner
Himself

Richard Pierce
Himself - Fresno County Sheriff

Barry Reingold
Himself - Interviewee

Porter Goss
Himself - Interviewee as Chairman of House Intelligence Committee

John Conyers
Himself - House Judiciary Committee Member

Tammy Baldwin
Herself - Interviewee as House Judiciary Committee Member

Michael Moore
Himself - Narrator

Patrick Hamilton
Himself - Baby

Trooper Brooks
Himself - Interviewee as Oregon State Trooper

Trooper Kenyon
Himself - Interviewee as Oregon State Trooper

Britney Spears
Herself - Interviewee

Thomas Hamill
Himself - Interviewee as Halliburton Fuel Tanker Driver

Lila Lipscomb
Herself - Interviewee as Executive Assistant of Career Alliance

Dale Cortman
Himself - Marine Staff Sergeant

Raymond Plouhar
Himself - Marine Sergeant

Abdul Henderson
Himself - as Marine Who Served in Iraq

Howard Lipscomb
Himself - Interviewee

Dave Lesar
Himself - CEO of Halliburton

Michael Mele
Himself - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Youssef Sleiman
Himself - from Iraq Initiatives

Sam Kubba
Himself - Interviewee from American Iraqi Chamber of Commerce

George Sigalos
Himself - Interviewee as Vice President of Halliburton

Gordon Bobbitt
Himself - Interviewee from Kalmar RT Center

Grant Haber
Himself - Interviewee from American Innovations Inc.

Blaine Ober
Himself - Interviewee from High Protection Company

John Tanner
Himself

Michael Castle
Himself - Interviewee

John T. Doolittle
Himself

Nick Berg
Himself

Khalil Bin Laden
Himself

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Herself

Richard Ben-Veniste
Himself

Wolf Blitzer
Himself

Jon Bon Jovi
Himself

Kyf Brewer
Pitch man

Stephen G. Breyer
Himself

Tom Brokaw
Himself

Barbara Bush
Herself

Barbara Bush
Herself

Jeb Bush
Himself

Jenna Bush
Herself

Laura Bush
Herself

Tucker Carlson
Himself

Neil Cavuto
Himself

Katie Couric
Herself

Peter Damon
Himself - soldier in hospital

Robert De Niro
Himself

John Edwards
Himself

Mike Emanuel
Himself

Ari Fleischer
Himself

Tommy Franks
Himself

Justice Gamble
Himself

Charles Gibson
Himself

Tipper Gore
Herself

Jeff Greenfield
Himself

Dennis Hastert
Himself

Brit Hume
Himself

Jesse Jackson Jr.
Himself

Peter Jennings
Himself

Anthony M. Kennedy
Himself

Ted Koppel
Himself

Matt Lauer
Himself

Cynthia McKinney
Herself

Timothy McVeigh
Himself

Patsy Mink
Herself

Sandra Day O'Connor
Herself

Colin Powell
Himself

Dan Rather
Himself

William Rehnquist
Himself

Tom Ridge
Himself

John Roberts
Himself

Tim Russert
Himself

Antonin Scalia
Himself

Max Schreck
Graf Orlok - from 'Nosferatu'

Bernard Shaw
Himself

David H. Souter
Himself

George Tenet
Himself

Clarence Thomas
Himself

Maxine Waters
Herself

Judy Woodruff
Herself

Paula Zahn
Herself

Director

Michael Moore
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Writer

Michael Moore

Producer

Jim Czarnecki
producer

Rita Dagher
associate producer

Carl Deal
archival producer, field producer

Joanne Doroshow
associate producer

Kurt Engfehr
co-producer

Jeff Gibbs
co-producer

Kathleen Glynn
producer

Monica Hampton
line producer

Nicky Lazar
field producer

Tia Lessin
supervising producer

Jay Martel
consulting producer

Agnès Mentre
executive producer

Anne Moore
associate producer

Michael Moore
producer

Rachelle Murway
online producer

Meghan O'Hara
field producer

Bob Weinstein
executive producer

Harvey Weinstein
executive producer

Original Music

Jeff Gibbs
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Editor

Kurt Engfehr
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Todd Woody Richman

Chris Seward

Art Director

Dina Varano
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Art Department

Bernardo Loyola
graphics

Sound Department

Gautam Choudhury
additional sound

Scott Guitteau
sound editor

Bradford L. Hohle
consultant: Dolby

Francisco La Torre
sound

Charles Miller
additional sound

Gary Rizzo
supervising sound editor, sound re-recording mixer

Paul Rusnak
additional sound

John Countryman
digital sound transferer

Sean England
digital archivist

James David Redding III
sound technician

Visual Effects

Vico Sharabani
Inferno artist

John R. Starace
Inferno artist

Nani Walker
digital artist

Camera and Electrical Department

Andrew Black
additional camera operator

Mike Desjarlais
camera operator

Nadia Hallgren
additional camera operator

Kirsten Johnson
additional camera operator

Tom Kaufman
additional camera operator

Jason Pollock
additional camera operator

William Rexer
additional camera operator

William Turnley
additional camera operator

Urban Hamid
cinematographer: additional footage

Animation Department

Harold Moss
graphics and animation: Flickerlab

Nani Walker
assistant animator

Editorial Department

Faith Astrada
additional intermediate editor

Francisco Bello
assistant editor

Rebecca Richman Cohen
first assistant editor

Kelley Cribben
post-production coordinator

David L. Feinberg
assistant editor

Dasaw Floyd
assistant editor

Becky Goldberg
assistant editor

Craig Gordon
digital intermediate editor

Luis Ortiz Guillen
assistant editor

Terry Haggar
color timer

Walt Lefler
digital colorist

Robert Mead III
assistant on-line editor

Robert Mead
on-line assistant editor

Mike Nuget
on-line assistant editor

Bangbay Siboliban
apprentice editor

David S. Tung
conforming editor

Margarita Jimeno
editorial assistant

Jeff Smithwick
film timer

Harold Lee Yen
assistant editor

Music Department

Suzanne Coffman
music clearances

Mark Fay
song recordist: "Ice Cream Truck #5"

Melinda Simon
song recordist: "Ice Cream Truck #5"

Other Crew

Robyn Alcock
production coordinator

Blake Ashman
production assistant

Juan Azize
production accountant

Crystal Bahmaie
production assistant

Nathaniel Bates
production assistant

Joe Beirne
technical supervisor

Devereux Chatillon
legal counsel, fact checker

Eli Chessen
production assistant

Isabella Chung
intern

Christina Colby
production accountant

Pete Conlin
avid technical support

Kesshann Cortez
production assistant

Salimah El-Amin
archival researcher

Geoff Ernst
production assistant

Christine Fall
assistant: Dog Eat Dog Films

Brendan Fitzgibbons
intern

Derek Fludzinski
production assistant

Neil Girardi
avid technical support

George Gittoes
footage: "Soundtrack to War" courtesy of

Daniel Gregor
production assistant

Nadia Hallgren
key production assistant

Daniel Hancox
intern

Charles Herzfeld
laboratory coordinator

Carrie Holecek
digital film project manager

Andrew Hurwitz
legal counsel

Khaliah Jackson
intern

Lewanne Jones
archival researcher

Jason Kitchen
intern

R.A. LeFande
photographs courtesy of

Lila Lipscomb
photographs courtesy of

Bernardo Loyola
title designer

Marie Luna
production assistant

Carolyn Rossip Malcolm
production accountant

Daniel Maldonado
production assistant

Elizabeth Marcus
production assistant

Donald McCloskey
production assistant

Lauren Molewski
photographs courtesy of: Retna Ltd.

Leilani Montes
intern

Huttenberg Nassar
key production assistant

Sue Nelson
intern

Julia Nessling-Douglas
digital film project manager

Tim O'Shea
intern

Stephanie Palumbo
key production assistant

Ernst Peters
photographs courtesy of: The ledger

Deborah Petriken
photographs courtesy of

Jason Pollock
assistant to director

Michael Pollock
intern

J. Robb
production assistant

Leanne Rock
production accountant

Mike Rogers
production assistant

Paul Ross
production assistant

David Rumble
production assistant

Manel Saddique
intern

David J. Sams
photographs courtesy of

David Schankula
researcher

Helayne Seidman
photographs courtesy of

Jesse Shane
production assistant

Natalie Stanford
legal counsel

Amanda Steigerwald
production assistant

Romy Stevenson
production assistant

Brad Thompson
intern

Will Tordella
production assistant

Richard Torpey
chief engineer

Emma Trask
office coordinator

Joe Violante
laboratory supervisor

Bill Vourvoulias
fact checker, legal counsel

Evin Watson
production assistant

Eric Weinrib
archival researcher

Frank Weysos
production assistant

Doug Williams
intern

Jamie Wong
key production assistant

Jeremy Yaches
production assistant

Melinda Ziyadat
production assistant

Alison S. Cohen
production counsel

Christopher Cram
production assistant

David Greenbaum
executive assistant: Harvey Weinstein

Vsevolod Horodyskyj
production assistant

Christian Zak
advisor: imaging

Thanks

Terry Allen
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Isabelle Audinot
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Tim Azarian
thanks

Bob Bastian
thanks

Mikaela Beardsley
thanks

Chris Belcher
acknowledgment: archival footage, Alchymedia

Mark Belhumeur
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Tarik Benbrahim
thanks

Jessica Berman Bogdan
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Elmer Bernstein
thanks

Anthony Bregman
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Elena Brodie
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Arthur A. Busch
thanks

Luigi Cazzaniga
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Pratap Chatterjee
acknowledgment: archival footage, CorpWatch

Dominick Costabile
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John Davidek
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Carl Deal
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Ric Dispenseri
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Michael Donkis
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Ari Emanuel
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Don Epstein
thanks

Mark Fabiani
thanks

Mark Friesland
thanks

John Fritz
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Jonathan Furmanski
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Ranko Gak
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Barbara Gregson
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Urban Hamid
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Laurent Issure
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Arthur Jafa
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Mort Janklow
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Tom Jennings
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Vanessa Jerrom
thanks

Jim Kiertzner
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Neal Kwatra
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Charles Layton
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Chris Lehane
thanks

Mike Lessin
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Tia Lessin
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Sophia Lin
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J. Fred MacDonald
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Vincent Maraval
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Daniel Marracino
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Ed Marritz
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David Martinez
acknowledgment: archival footage, CorpWatch

Julia Martin
thanks

Leanne McIntire
acknowledgment: archival footage, The Education Channel

Tracy McKnight
thanks

Eartha Melzer
thanks

Josh Miller
thanks

Shannon Mills
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Moby
thanks

Scott Myers
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Dorenna Newton
thanks

Tim Nielsen
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Scott Norman
thanks

Lisa Oberhofer
thanks

Michael Pedersen
dedicatee

Richard Ray Perez
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Brett Petriken
dedicatee

Joshua Pines
thanks

Mark Punswick
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Mary Page Riley
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Erik Rist
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Shane Robinson
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Candance Robison
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Natalie Rose
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Steve Rundell
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Joan Sekler
acknowledgment: archival footage provided by

Jari Sheese
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Irv Slosberg
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William Sprawls
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Tim Squyres
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Joel Suttles
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Linda Taylor
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Robert Taylor
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Stacie Teele
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Bill Weems
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Modi Wiczyk
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Thomasina Williams
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Neil Young
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Solar Films

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ABC News Video Source
archival footage

Air Power Video and Film Stock Library
archival footage

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archival footage

Al-Jazeera
archival footage

Alchymedia
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
thank you

Answer Technologies
thank you

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD)
archival footage

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Associated Press Television News
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Associated Production Music (APM)
stock music

BBC Worldwide
archival footage

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CBS News Archives
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Cable News Network (CNN)
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television Archives
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archival footage

Dallas Morning News
photographs courtesy of

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thank you

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sound mixing

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legal services

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archival footage

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archival footage

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foreign sales

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graphics and animation

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archival footage

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archival footage

Fox News Channel
archival footage

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technical services: HD

George Bush Presidential Library
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archival footage

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archival footage

Military Families Speak Out
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NBC News Archives
archival footage

National Security News Service
thank you

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technical support: Avid

Petriken Family, The
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Questar Pictures
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Real Television International
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Retna Pictures Ltd.
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post-production sound services

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legal counsel, fact checking

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