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.
Direction
Peabody weaves Stone's 1950s newsletters into our current surveillance nightmare.
Writing
Stone's prose—whip-smart, funny, absolutely merciless.
Director
Fred Peabody
Leslie Moonves
Self - President of CBS (voice) (archive footage)
Matt Taibbi
Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine
Colin Powell
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage)
Ralph Nader
Self - Author and Political Activist
Amy Goodman
Self - Host and Executive Producer, Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill
Self - Co-founder, The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Co-founder, The Intercept
Edward Snowden
Self (archive footage)
Laura Poitras
Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stone was legally blind for most of his career and read government documents with a magnifying glass for hours daily.
I.F. Stone's Weekly was entirely self-published from 1953-1971, making him the original newsletter Substack bro—except actually good.
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Magnífico documental
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What is so new about governments lying.
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