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His films include:
* ''Roger & Me'': His breakthrough film, it documents the mass unemployment and other negative economic effects caused by General Motors closing its factories in Flint, Michigan (Moore's birthplace, though he was raised in Davison).
* ''[[Canadian Bacon]]'': Moore's only non-documentary film, this is a comedy about America starting a new [[Cold War]] with [[Canada, Eh?]] in order to revitalize the defense industry. Notable for being John Candy's last film, and for [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|a crack about the lunacy of declaring a war on terrorism despite being made in the 90s]].
* ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'': The documentary that made the most money of any at the time, it looks into the causes of the 1999 [[Useful Notes/Columbine|Columbine]] High School Massacre and, by extension, [[Useful Notes/American Gun Politics|gun culture in the United States in general]]. It won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'': Still the highest-grossing documentary of all time, it looks into the administration of [[George W Bush]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as well as [[The War On Terror]]. It was made with the obvious intent of preventing Bush from getting re-elected in 2004. It received the Palme D'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and amusingly ([[Your Mileage May Vary|or not]]), it is the movie for which George W. Bush won two Razzies, one for "Worst Actor" and another for "Worst Screen Couple" with ''either'' Condoleeza Rice ''or'' His Pet Goat.
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{{quote| "[Americans] are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. [...] We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing."}}
** He titled one of his books "Stupid White Men".
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: In ''Bowling For Columbine'', he compares Detroit to Windsor just across the border, and describes Canada like a paradise.
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* [[Crying Wolf]]: If he hadn't been caught using so much manipulative editing it'd be a lot easier to believe him when he's telling the truth.
* [[Cultural Cringe]]: He has a very low opinion of Americans.
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