American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals

American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals (2008)

Liberalism and Conservatism 101 for Citizens Fed Up with the Status Quo

This documentary fulfills a unique niche by taking a non-partisan, unbiased approach to the history of Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States. The film starts at the foundation of the country and continues though the 2006 election. Scholars, authors, historians and partisan activists are used not only to tell the history of each movement, but also to show how the meaning of each term has changed over time. Modern Conservatism is depicted as arising from opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, becoming a national movement in the 1960's and reaching its apex with Ronald Reagan. Modern Liberalism has its roots in the progressive era of the 1890's becoming dominant with the New Deal, and losing influence with the perceived failures of the "Great Society programs" and Vietnam war policies of Lyndon Johnson.

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  • Release Date: 2008-10-20
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Director: Richard Riggs Hall

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Cast

  • Michael Barone

    Self

  • David Boaz

    Self

  • Donna Brazile

    Self

  • Mona Charen

    Self

  • Noam Chomsky

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lee Edwards

    Self

  • Thomas Frank

    Self

  • Michael Kazin

    Self

  • G. Gordon Liddy

    Self (archive footage)

  • Norman Ornstein

    Self

  • Kevin Phillips

    Self

  • David Stoesz

    Self

  • Adrian Wooldridge

    Self

  • Howard Zinn

    Self (archive footage)