Released Date:
2008-05-09
Languages:
English, Arabic, French
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (5530 Reviews)
Director:
Morgan SpurlockJeremy Chilnick (screenplay)
Morgan Spurlock (screenplay)
When Morgan Spurlock and his wife find out they are expecting a child in an unsafe world that faces multiple terrorist and environmental threats, Morgan decides to track down the world's most wanted and dangerous terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, undergoes self-defense training, takes all required medical shots, and sets out to travel to Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan amongst others to try and locate the man who has managed to elude the American army for nearly a decade. His fears, generated due to biased media coverage that Muslims and Arabs are hostile, are laid to rest when he does encounter friendly, and quite refreshingly well educated, hospitable, politically matured men and women, who are well aware of America's faulty 'foreign policy', and do not subscribe to Jihad nor to the Taliban nor Osama's terror-tactics. But he does encounter some hostility, quite ironically, in two of America's allies -- Israel and Saudi Arabia -- and it is on the soil of Pakistan -- his country's ally against the so-called War Against Terror -- that he eventually hopes to find Osama. The questions still remain: will he able to find him where many others have purportedly failed? And most importantly will he be allowed to remain alive after finding him?
Released Date:
2010-09-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (5341 Reviews)
Genres:
DocumentaryPeter Bull
Alex Gibney
Jeremy Chilnick
Morgan Spurlock
Eugene Jarecki
Heidi Ewing
Rachel Grady
Seth Gordon
Steven Levitt (book)
Stephen Dubner (book)
The field of economics can study more than the workings of economies or businesses, it can also help explore human behavior in how it reacts to incentives. Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner host an anthology of documentaries that examines how people react to opportunities to gain, wittingly or otherwise. The subjects include the possible role a person's name has for their success in life, why there is so much cheating in an honor bound sport like sumo wrestling, what helped reduce crime in the USA in the 1990s onward and we follow an school experiment to see if cash prizes can encourage struggling students to improve academically.
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