Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Cast

Marilyn Manson
as Himself
Charlton Heston
as Himself
Carla Gallo
as Herself
Chris Rock
as Himself

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Genres & Description

Crime Documentary Drama

8.0 / 10

The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.

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Tasha Jacobs

Still relevant.. - @Monday, May 21, 2018 6:06 AM

I invented chemtrails

Nobody died at Columbine. It was a psyop. - @Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:32 AM

Odrianne Voznesenskaya

"Thank you for not shooting me LMAOOO" - @Tuesday, February 20, 2018 11:27 PM

fiddlingdevice

michael moore is such a shill - @Tuesday, May 9, 2017 11:13 PM

sammakkoihminen

Lol at the butthurt americans in the comments. Possibly the stupidest nation in the world. - @Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:35 AM

stickmagnet

THE BEST VICXPLOITATION MOVIE EVER. - @Sunday, February 5, 2017 6:57 PM

Kat Romero

What cartoon is 1:54? - @Monday, September 19, 2016 10:40 PM

The Illusionist

Disarming the populace = State can go nuts and the populace won't have a last resort tool to defend itself. All the repressive right and left wing regimes of the past preceded a disarmament of the populace. - @Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:32 PM

gemcutter187

Fuck this gay ass movie, Michael Moore is a blubbering moron piece of shit - @Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:17 PM

africa93

look at all these gun whore pro-murder sociopaths flocking to the comments section because they butt-hurt about a documentary. as a real liberal, i welcome these murder enablers to the comments and look forward to refuting their fetishistic delusions - @Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:16 PM

Mr. Incredible

Shouldn't we make the making of pipe bombs illegal as well since they used pipe bombs at Columbine? Oh that's right you're not allowed to make them. Also the local authorities had evidence that Eric Harris was producing pipe bombs and was up to what he was before it even happened. They drew up an affidavit but it was never brought to the judge, which they covered up for the longest time. Also how about the knife attack in China that killed 29 people and injured like 130 people in a train station? - @Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:52 PM

trin

The most misguided & misleading film possible, by the biggest hypocrite possible. - @Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:57 AM

Mr. Ford

What a bunch of shit. - @Sunday, March 20, 2016 5:41 PM

Brendan Hilliard

This guy really hates America - @Monday, March 14, 2016 8:08 PM

zachary S

This is so relevant today. - @Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:32 PM

Perfect Sense

Moore gives way too much emphasis on the gun. A gun is an INANIMATE OBJECT. It's the jackass who uses one improperly that is 100% to blame. Don't disarm the law-abiding citizenry! - @Wednesday, December 9, 2015 12:51 AM

Straight White Christian Male

Universal Background Checks would not have prevented massacres like Columbine, Aurora, Tucson, and Sandy Hook (all the shooters did purchase the guns legally and received background checks). Restrictions on magazine capacity would do nothing to lessen the death count of shooting rampages, as seen at Virginia Tech (deadliest mass shooting in the US perpetrated with 10 round magazines). An Assault Weapons Ban would be ineffective as rifles OF ANY KIND are responsible for less deaths per year than knives (or even fists!). They are merely political stepping stones to gain ground against the Second Amendment. The anti-gun lobbyists and politicians will not stop until the 2nd is repealed or until guns deaths are reduced to zero, which couldn't happen even after an outright ban. - @Tuesday, November 10, 2015 9:20 PM

Ivan Schaub

such ac comment on American culture - @Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:13 PM

Shega! G

Wake up, People!!! - @Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:55 PM

Russ Ko

Moore, move to Canada please. You really won't be missed. YFF! - @Monday, September 28, 2015 7:52 PM

Joel Baxter

This is the best movie I have ever seen - @Saturday, April 11, 2015 9:31 PM

Captain Deadpool

Nothing like twisting words to make your personal political beliefs look good and everyone else look like shit. - @Wednesday, March 4, 2015 6:02 AM

naynayhotdog

why do we really need to sell automatic and semi automatic weapons - @Monday, February 2, 2015 5:10 AM

Realtreeredneck

Mankind has been killing eachother since the dawn of time. Perhaps natures way of culling the dominant predators. Throw in several nut jobs and let them go with whatever's handy, sticks, rocks, bows and arrows, blades, crossbows, muskets, black powder revolvers, repeating rifles, nuclear war heads. The killing will not end until humanity has killed its self off. - @Monday, January 26, 2015 4:14 AM

@LBStayKeyed on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook

The US government is responsible for Columbine, Sandy Hook, The movie shooting in Colorado, etc.... Its all apart of a bigger scheme to unarm Americans so the Global elite can control us without resistance. - @Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:33 PM

Christina Hill

Although I can understand why people are against guns, it's a sad fact that no matter how hard you try to prevent murders they will still happen. I think we should do more for mental health in this country, and I think that it would help prevent at least some violence - @Friday, October 31, 2014 7:37 AM

Andrew Jones

This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen, it's so entertaining! - @Monday, February 10, 2014 5:49 PM

johncfl

What's clear is that gun advocates will use any means necessary to champion the sale and ownership of firearms, without limit and with a preference for no controls whatsoever. Lies and the fear are propogated as the basic marketing technique of gun sellers and the militant fringe fanatics. - @Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:24 PM

Arachnoscribe

Arguments for and against firearms will always result in a stalemate... Personally, I prefer the direct honesty of killing tools... Primal? Of course! We only pretend to be civilized... Dining at a fancy table still results in shit, no? - @Monday, December 9, 2013 12:36 PM

Sean Collins

I thought that Morgan Spurlock was the greatest whistleblower. - @Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:29 AM

Emily

Just so you know. I'm not American. I don't think everyone should have the right to own a gun. There are certain purposes for guns, thinking you have a right to own a gun to "PROTECT" yourself is not what I believe in. The fact Americans say they have a right to bear arms so they can more easily kill someone is preposterous. Laws do curb some violence sir. I'm not saying all of it, I'm saying some. Take a look at other countries, THEN come back and tell me how gun laws don't help. - @Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:52 AM

thedevilhimself90

i wanna live in a world with marshmallows bullets and bazukas that shoot pillows!:D - @Saturday, August 3, 2013 4:50 PM

kborcudi

Yeah, the russians took advantage of that when they invaded your country and murdered all of your women and children. While you were trying to gather cannons and shooting hunting rifles. LOLOLOL - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:39 PM

Karin Kauffman

Don't be so quick to disregard the fact the two attackers in combine had a number of bombs placed through the high school that didn't properly detonate. If they had the disasters of that would have outnumbered the amount wounded by gun fire. Point blank people have access to countless other means of inflicting crimes,without guns they would find other perhaps more catastrophic ways of completing their task. Guns are either devices or means of protection, they should be stricter on who has access - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 9:35 PM

Alex Scorp

You're one of the first people to disagree with me on youtube and not use profanity, yay - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 7:49 PM

shananagans5

Actually,if you aren't involved in crime yourself you are safer in the US than you are in most countries. Guns in a population drastically reduces random index (violent) crime. Spend some time looking through the Uniform Crime Report & the patterns are hard to miss. - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 4:56 AM

Alex Scorp

If owning a gun makes you safer, then America would be the safest country on earth, but it's not, it is quite the opposite - @Tuesday, July 16, 2013 5:18 PM

MELEKH HA OLAM

Watch the first ten minutes of "Michael and Me" for confirmation of the fact that Mr. Mooron completely misrepresented the case of the Detroit child who shot the other child. - @Saturday, July 6, 2013 3:17 PM

residentevilfreakk55

So what's your point, it's a problem for me to want to defend myself with the best mean possible? - @Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:04 PM

jay moffatt

guns arent the issue take away guns and instead of a mass shooting you get a spread over time serial killer murders been a part of human nature for as long as we have been around how we do it is irrelevent - @Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:18 AM

BostonBruinsRule101

Oh hey look, a meaningless comment with no purpose other than to start an argument! Never seen one of those before. -proceeds to block butthurt redneck- - @Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:00 PM

Nick Rodriguez

Tell that to the numerous Canadian politicians who scramble over here for their surgeries; Canada's healthcare isn't so good, eh? Even Bieber himself wanted nothing to do with that shithole. After all, what other country's disposable income was he going to mooch off of? - @Monday, May 6, 2013 8:23 AM

Nick Rodriguez

You're just as much of an idiot for believing this fat slob. - @Monday, May 6, 2013 8:16 AM

Tobias P-L

Please tell us more, preferably in capital letters... - @Friday, May 3, 2013 11:50 PM

MrMollusk7

Holy fuck, who let YOU out of the sanitarium? - @Monday, April 29, 2013 4:18 AM

prettyboysweet

THERE ARE HARDLY ANY BLACKS IN CANADA!!! BARELY ANY!! AND THAT IS A FACT!! LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELVES IT ONLY TAKES 30 SECONDS!!! MOORER IS SUCH A DOOSHBAG!!! WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT!! THEY SAY THERES NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHITES AND BLACKS!! LMFAO!! YEAH FUCKING RIGHT!! WERE SO DIFFERENT IN EVERY WAY THATS RELEVANT!! THERES MORE DIFFERENT ABOUT US THEN THERE ARE THE SAME!!! TOTALLY DIFFERENT SPECIES!! FUCKING DAMN NEAR ANIMALS IF U ASK ME!!!! - @Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:50 AM

prettyboysweet

MOORER IS A FUCKING FAKE ASS LIAR!! I USED TO KINDA LIKE HIM DURING THE FARENHEIT DAYS BUT WHEN HE TRIES TO GET US ALL TO BELIEVE THERE ARE PLENTY OF BLACKS IN CANADA HE IS LYING TO US!! WATCH THE MOVIE, AND ILL GUARANTEE YOU THE REASON WHY THERE WAY LESS CRIME IN CNADA IS BECAUSE THERE ARE HARDLY ANY BLACKS!! POINT BLANK!! THAT IS THE ONLY REASON!! BUT MOORER CANT ADMIT IT, AND HE SAYS THERE ARE PLENTY OF BLACKS IN CANADA!! WELL I INVITE ANYONE TO SIMPLY GOOGLE THE NUMBERS YOURSELF.HE IS LYING! - @Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:47 AM

stickmagnet

Gun ban is stupid and unrealistic solution, but people have to be mentally and psychically competent to own any fire arms. Its not guns and drugs fault if people get harmed, its the people who succumbed to temptation., - @Friday, April 19, 2013 6:34 PM

TheVintageGore

The shooters went bowling before the shooting - @Friday, April 19, 2013 3:53 AM

Vomiehenk

pointing out the facts, dont be a that stereotype stubborn american - @Monday, April 15, 2013 3:12 PM