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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
A visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers. Inspired by Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". (imdb)
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Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

2007
Documentary
58m
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Rated 28 Nov 2020
61
33rd
I have watched better slideshows.
Rated 19 Nov 2014
5
70th
interesting presentation of american history told entirely by tombstones. an alternative history at that, given the names chosen. some i didn't know, but if one picks voltarine de cleyre and emma goldman they must be doing something right! all this was juxtaposed against images of nature, and bits of animation. at times amateurish, and obviously low-budget, but ultimately an elegy for freedom fighters (so to speak), especially radical unionists who were soon to be throttled by wagner and taft.
Rated 21 Nov 2010
35
90th
"Beneath the meditative procession of sites, Gianvito layers an anxiety built into most viewers' gaps in 17th-to-20th-century U.S. history." - Bill Weber

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