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.
Cast and Crew
I. F. Stone
Self - Investigative journalist (archive footage)
Chris Hedges
Self - Former correspondent, The New York Times
Leslie Moonves
Self, president of CBS (voice) (archive footage)
Jeff Cohen
Self, founding director, Park Center for Independent Media
Matt Taibbi
Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone magazine
John Carlos Frey
Self - Independent journalist
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
Erin McLaughlin
Self, reporter, CNN (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
Self, co-founder, The Intercept
Edward Snowden
Self (archive footage)
Laura Poitras
Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein
Self - Investigative Journalist - Co-author, All the President's Men
Noam Chomsky
Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT
Nermeen Shaikh
Self - Senior producer and co-host - Democracy Now!
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Self, independent journalist
Lori Baker
Self, forensic archaeologist
Jeremy J. Stone
Self, son of I. F. Stone
Myra MacPherson
Self, author of 'All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone'
Dick Cavett
Self
Tom Engelhardt
Self, founder, TomDispatch.com (as Tom Englehardt)
David Corn
Self, Mother Jones Magazine
Ari Fleischer
Self, White House press secretary (archive footage)
Mitt Romney
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
Condoleezza Rice
Self (archive footage)
Cenk Uygur
Self, host, The Young Turks
Hillary Clinton
Herself (archive footage)
Ana Kasparian
Self, The Young Turks
Paul Ramirez
Self, retired county judge, Texas
Esther Kaplan
Self, The Nation Institute
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Desmond Cole
Self
Tom Ewell
Richard Sherman (archive footage)
Dustin Hoffman
Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
Peter Jennings
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
The Girl (archive footage)
Michael Moore
Self - Independent filmmaker
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Michelle Obama
Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford
Bob Woodward (archive footage)
Jason Robards
Ben Bradlee (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Kevin Spacey
Verbal (archive footage)
Videos & Trailers
IDFA 2016 | Trailer | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of IF Stone