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

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

91 mins | Documentary | Nov. 4, 2016

Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.

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

91 mins | Documentary | Nov. 4, 2016

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Super Channel, Canada Media Fund, FMC Productions
Original title All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Directors Fred Peabody
Writers

Cast

I. F. Stone

as Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage)

Chris Hedges

as Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times

Leslie Moonves

as Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage)

Jeff Cohen

as Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media

Matt Taibbi

as Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine

John Carlos Frey

as Self - Independent journalist

Colin Powell

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

as Self (archive footage)

Ralph Nader

as Self, author and political activist

Amy Goodman

as Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!

Jeremy Scahill

as Self, co-founder, The Intercept

Erin McLaughlin

as Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage)

Glenn Greenwald

as Self, co-founder, The Intercept

Edward Snowden

as Self (archive footage)

Laura Poitras

as Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)

Carl Bernstein

as Self - Investigative Journalist - Co-author, All the President's Men

Noam Chomsky

as Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT

Nermeen Shaikh

as Self - Senior producer and co-host - Democracy Now!

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

as Self, independent journalist

Lori Baker

as Self, forensic archaeologist

Jeremy J. Stone

as Self, son of I. F. Stone

Myra MacPherson

as Self, author of 'All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone'

Dick Cavett

as Self

Tom Engelhardt

as Self, founder, TomDispatch.com (as Tom Englehardt)

David Corn

as Self, Mother Jones Magazine

Ari Fleischer

as Self, White House press secretary (archive footage)

Mitt Romney

as Self (archive footage)

Dick Cheney

as Self (archive footage)

Condoleezza Rice

as Self (archive footage)

Cenk Uygur

as Self, host, The Young Turks

Hillary Clinton

as Herself (archive footage)

Ana Kasparian

as Self, The Young Turks

Paul Ramirez

as Self, retired county judge, Texas

Esther Kaplan

as Self, The Nation Institute

George W. Bush

as Self (archive footage)

Desmond Cole

as Self

Tom Ewell

as Richard Sherman (archive footage)

Dustin Hoffman

as Carl Bernstein (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

as Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

as The Girl (archive footage)

Michael Moore

as Self - Independent filmmaker

Barack Obama

as Self (archive footage)

Michelle Obama

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Redford

as Bob Woodward (archive footage)

Jason Robards

as Ben Bradlee (archive footage)

Donald Trump

as Self (archive footage)

Kevin Spacey

as Verbal (archive footage)